Douglas Alan

Current

• Senior Scientific Software Engineer at Harvard University
• Senior Scientific Software Engineer at Harvard University Initiative in Innovative Computing

Past

• Programmer/Analyst III at MIT Information Services and Technology
• Software Engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Software Engineer at MIT

• Software Engineer at MIT Center for Space Research
• Systems Programmer at MIT Media Lab
• Programmer/Analyst and Assistant Manager at MIT EECS Dept.
• Systems Programmer II at MIT Project Athena

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Education

• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Research

Douglas Alan’s Experience

• Senior Scientific Software Engineer

  Harvard University

  (Research industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

• Senior Scientific Software Engineer

  Harvard University Initiative in Innovative Computing

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  I am adapting brain imaging software (i.e., 3D Slicer) to visualize astronomy data (e.g., spectral line data cubes). The work is being done largely in C++ using the ITK and VTK toolkits. Some of the work is done in Python.

• Programmer/Analyst III

  MIT Information Services and Technology

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2005 — April 2006 (1 year )

• Software Engineer

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  (Research industry)

  1986 — 2006 (20 years )

• Software Engineer

  MIT

  (Research industry)

  1986 — 2006 (20 years )

• Software Engineer

  MIT Center for Space Research

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  September 1993 — May 2005 (11 years 9 months)

  Implemented and maintained the configuration software for the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a NASA space telescope. This software was essential for the publication of more than 700 peer-reviewed journal papers. This project was programmed in C++. Other projects I worked on here used Python.

• Systems Programmer

  MIT Media Lab

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  April 1990 — August 1993 (3 years 5 months)

• Programmer/Analyst and Assistant Manager

  MIT EECS Dept.

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

  December 1987 — March 1990 (2 years 4 months)

• Systems Programmer II

  MIT Project Athena

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  February 1986 — November 1987 (1 year 10 months)

Douglas Alan’s Education

• Harvard University

  Special Graduate Student in Computer Science

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  S.B. , Language and Mind (aka, cognitive science)

  Also intensely studied Computer Science and Engineering at an undergraduate and graduate level and was admitted to the Computer Science PhD program at B.U. with a full fellowship, but decided to seek employment as a software/systems engineer instead.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Special Graduate Student , Computer Science, Media Arts and Science, Philosophy

Additional Information

Douglas Alan’s Groups:

•    Back Bay Large Installation System Administration (BBLISA)

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