Software/hardware engineer; MIT PhD; Owner, Ahuas Emigré Press; Lighting Designer
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Software Developer at Litl
- Owner at Ahuas Emigré Press (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Software Engineer at One Laptop Per Child
- Research Assistant at MIT
- Teaching Assistant, 6.170 at MIT
- Lead programmer, EIRS project at VerifiedVoting.org
- Master Electrician at SpeakEasy Stage
- Lighting Designer at SpeakEasy Stage
- Lighting Designer at SpeakEasy Stage
- Lighting Designer at SpeakEasy Stage
- Lead Programmer at Sportscape.com
- System Coder at Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Research Assistant at Princeton University Electrical Engineering Dept.
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MIT
- Princeton University
- Christian Academy of Guatemala
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C. Scott Ananian’s Summary
I am a computer engineer able to build hardware and write software. My PhD work was on transactional memory systems, and then I went to work on systems software for One Laptop per Child. I also own a small publishing company, and work as a lighting designer for Boston-area theater companies. I am not actively looking for work in my technical field of study at this time, but I am interested in short-term opportunities as a lighting designer (or other work in theater or film). I also welcome high-quality manuscripts on behalf of my publishing company.
C. Scott Ananian’s Specialties:
Transactional memory, embedded systems, python, desktop search, filesystems, open source, free software, debian, linux, kernel, compiler construction, program analysis, hardware design, page layout, copyediting, publishing business.
C. Scott Ananian’s Experience
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Software Developer
Litl
(Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
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Owner
Ahuas Emigré Press (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Publishing industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years )
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Software Engineer
One Laptop Per Child
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
June 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 8 months)
Linux software generalist: designed software update system based on new copy-on-write filesystem, implemented theft-deterrence security system, outlined new filesystem and network architectures. Prototyped next-generation desktop search system.
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Research Assistant
MIT
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
September 1997 — June 2007 (9 years 10 months)
Wrote FLEX compiler infrastructure. Published papers on program analysis for embedded systems, computer architecture, compiler construction, and (most recently) software and hardware transactional memory.
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Teaching Assistant, 6.170
MIT
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 2006 — May 2006 (4 months)
Taught recitation for a section of 6.170, Laboratory in Software Engineering, which teaches large-program design techniques to sophmores majoring in Computer Science. Also maintained and expanded the antichess.net framework on sourceforge, which is used for one of the final projects of the course.
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Lead programmer, EIRS project
VerifiedVoting.org
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Primary coder for election incident reporting system (EIRS) used to track problems with elections and dispatch responders. Infrastructure, database, and web interface.
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Master Electrician
SpeakEasy Stage
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)
1999 — 2004 (5 years )
Resident master electrician for SpeakEasy Stage Company's 1999-2004 seasons.
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Lighting Designer
SpeakEasy Stage
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)
January 2003 — February 2003 (2 months)
Designed "The Shape of Things" for SpeakEasy Stage Company at the Boston Center for the Arts. The New England premiere of a play by Neil LaBute. Directed by Paul Melone; set design by Paul Theriault.
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Lighting Designer
SpeakEasy Stage
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)
April 2002 — May 2002 (2 months)
Designed "Passion" by Stephen Sondheim for SpeakEasy Stage Company at the Boston Center for the Arts. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by James Lapine.
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Lighting Designer
SpeakEasy Stage
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)
March 2001 — April 2001 (2 months)
Designed "Snakebit" for the SpeakEasy Stage Company at the Boston Center for the Arts. New England premiere of a play by David Marshall Grant. Directed by Lois Roach; set design by Eric Levenson.
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Lead Programmer
Sportscape.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
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System Coder
Summer Institute of Linguistics
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
July 1996 — August 1996 (2 months)
Designed and wrote text processing software to support
multiple-platform typesetting operations internationally.
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Research Assistant
Princeton University Electrical Engineering Dept.
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
June 1996 — June 1996 (1 month)
Designed and implemented a PC interface card for a BOMEM laboratory
spectrometer.
Ported extant FORTRAN code. Wrote low-level interface code for the PC.
C. Scott Ananian’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD , Computer Science , 2000 — 2007
Thesis research is on hardware and software support for transactional memory. Paper describing a portion of this research was an IEEE "Top Pick in Computer Architecture" for 2005 (published in Jan/Feb 2006 IEEE Micro).
- Activities and Societies:
- Tech Squares
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MIT
M.Sc. , Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , September 1997 — September 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- MIT Shakespeare Ensemble.
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Princeton University
B.S.E. , Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , September 1993 — June 1997
Concentration in Computer Engineering. Certificate from the Program in Theater and Dance.
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi National Honor Society, Sigma Xi National Honor Society. Outstanding Academic Achievement, Princeton School of Engineering. Vice-President, Princeton IEEE Student Chapter. Second place, IEEE Region I Student Prize Paper Contest, 1996.
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Christian Academy of Guatemala
High School , 1991 — 1993
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C. Scott Ananian’s Interests:
transactional memory, compiler implementation, theater, lighting design, challenge square dancing, square dancing, board gaming, greyhound rescue
C. Scott Ananian’s Groups:
ACM, IEEE, Tech Squares, Greyhound Welfare, ACME
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MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni
C. Scott Ananian’s Honors:
UTM paper chosen as a "Top Pick in Computer Architecture" for 2005 by the journal IEEE Micro.
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