Eve Astrid Andersson

About Me

Work
I live in London, managing some of Google's strategic partnerships as well as an excellent team that does the same. Formerly I worked on Commerce & Analytics for Google in California. Prior to that, I was a Senior Vice President at Neumont University (a start-up university); before that, Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Universidad Galileo (Guatemala); and before that, Founder and VP Operations of ArsDigita Corporation (acquired by Red Hat). Résumé.

Education
Wharton MBA in Finance. Engineering degrees from Caltech (bachelor's) and Berkeley (master's). Additional coursework at Stanford in Data Mining. GMAT: 800. Research: Characteristics and Determinants of Private Equity Returns (MBA) and Computational Analysis of Pyrolysis (master's).

Places I've Lived
Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Salt Lake City, London, Guatemala

Places I've Visited
Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vatican City, Venezuela, West Bank (Palestinian territory), Zambia

Places I Want to Go
India, New Zealand, Madagascar, Santorini, Machu Picchu, Gombe National Park (Tanzania), Sealand, International Space Station.

Things I Enjoy
Pi, travel, photography, change, Van Gogh, Pablo Neruda, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, Astor Piazzolla, dogs, penguins, teaching, dancing, statistics and data mining, Barolo and Barbaresco, the OpenACS logo, vegetarianism, singing karaoke with my sister Hedy.

How I would spend my time if I didn't have a day job.

Goals
Live on all continents, speak 4 languages fluently, do important work (it doesn't matter which field the work is in) and write and teach about it.

Photography

Africa   Egypt
Lusaka, Zambia
Marrakech, Morocco
South Africa
Antarctica   Antarctica
Asia   China
Israel
Japan
Petra, Jordan
Europe   Algarve, Portugal
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Athens, Greece
Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Granada, Spain
Graubünden, Switzerland
Iceland
Ireland
Malta
Northern Ireland, UK
Paris, France
Prague, Czech Republic
Rome, Italy
South of France
Tromsø, Norway
Zagreb, Croatia
Zürich, Switzerland
Latin America   Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cancun, Mexico
Guatemala
Ushuaia, Argentina
United States   California's Wine Regions
Maui
New Orleans
Portland
Seattle
Utah
Washington, DC

Search photos:
(8766 photos from 279 locations in 38 countries)

Writing

  Software Engineering for Internet Applications
with Philip Greenspun and Andrew Grumet
MIT Press
March 2006
    Early Adopter VoiceXML Chapter 2
Wrox Press
August 2001


6 Things I've Learned through Web Analytics

VoiceXML: letting people talk to your HTTP server through the telephone

Reverse Engineering a Data Model Using the Oracle Data Dictionary

Pi

Pi Land: pi games, poetry, equations, and [some of] the digits themselves

Things from Long Ago

University Reminiscences: excerpts from my blog from before the word "blog" was coined (1995 - 1996)

Sexy Suzy: a song about a girl who turns into a computer (1995)

ACME Nerd Suppressant: an advertisement for a magical drug (1998)

Polyorchid Religious Society: as a high school prank, I created and handed out these flyers in downtown Seattle; I think I gained some converts (1992)

The pictorial story of how I arrived on Earth (excerpts) (1995)

ArsDigita (archives): this was the company I co-founded in 1998. The open-source repository and public documents are preserved here. Favorites: ArsDigita's Mission and Professionalism for Software Engineers.

Music

All works composed and performed by Eve.

eve@eveandersson.com
Last update: June 2010
Wrote an article: 6 Things I've Learned through Web Analytics.