ANIL CS RAO
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  • పని పురోగతిలో ఉంది (తెలుగు)
  • Work-In-Progress : Vizag Blue
  • ComicCons : FHM (INDIA) TOP 17 COMICS OF 2012
  • Rainbow FM Hyderabad
  • "Bonfire of Convention" : my first public exhibit 2005
  • Montgomery County, Maryland Gazette 2009
  • August 15, 2008 India Abroad
  • MFA Thesis Novel : BHARATHI
  • Film Project 2003
  • Debonair Magazine 2005 2006
  • My Poetry Work
  • ARTWORK FOR PURCHASE : PHYSICAL & NFTS
  • CVH RAO BOOK
  • Late Dad: Dr CVG Krishna Rao MD FACR
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​"What is a Bad Man? But a Good Man's Job?"
~ Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching 

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​Anil CS Rao lives with his wife and twin boys in his family's residence in Howard County, Maryland in The States.   Sometimes - during  his twin boys summer holidays - he avails his residence in Hyderabad, India - where he can enjoy a much lower cost of living and relatively inexpensive healthcare facilities.​



Hiro Comics is what can be considered, given the time and resources required - and hence due to the heavy opportunity costs, a very expensive hobby. Despite the fact Rao finds the activity to be  engaging, he aknowledges that this "hobby" is unsustainable from a financial perspective, Rao has been creatibg comics since 2009 - and in 2012 he attended the first India Comicon held in New Delhi’s Dilli Haat venue - and where three of his initial forays placed on FHM India magazine’s Top 17 Comic Books of 2012.

He hopes to present his current work-in-progress, titled THE ENGINEER & CONTRACTOR - at a forthcoming  Hyderabad Comicon - held bi-annually at HiTech City - and the publication will be offered in the Telugu language besides English.

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Khadi "Homespun" from a New Perspective :

Around 2003 - he started an LLC in The States in 2003 - the ‘Emma Dress’ - the aim of which was to manufacture and import “khadi” (homespun) cloth based woman’s garments along with indigenous Indian accessories into The States from India. Specifically, the “khadi” was sourced in the small scale silk mills in the village of Pochampalli outside Hyderabad.

In 1991, he had attempted part time study at FIT in the Fashion District of Manhattan NYC while employed as an engineer by the City of New York  - but due to lack of time given a full-time daytime job  - and hence - lack of the repetitive practice in sewing and draping muslin to create patterns to sew from - in this trade he concluded only hundreds of iterations would yield marginal progress - he found himself in the failure zone towards the end of that initial semester - and decided it best to ‘abandon ship’ at that juncture in time.

More than a decade later he resurrected this interest from his younger days - and in 2004, he did in fact design garments himself and in collaboration with NIFT Hyderabad students - and employed local Hyderabad small-scale businesses - tailors, seamstresses, etc. - to manufacture them to his specs. All the materials for the accessories were also local to Hyderabad - including black pearl necklaces, silver surfing themed jewelry, etc.

The ultimate plan was actually inspired by his readings of the Mahatma Gandhi and EF Shumacher - to rent a small stall or store on the Boardwalk at Ocean City, Maryland during summer months in America - and return to his place of birth in India - to work on new designs the rest of the year. 
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Unfortunately, because of bad logistics - and unfavorable import quotas in place by the United States’ government customs authorities - the business was shuttered after a year of struggle to stay on course.

1988 - 2004
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From February 1988 to 2004 - he was employed by the City of New York (MTA), the State of California (CALTRANS), the City of Alexandria (Metro Washington DC) and many private consulting firms in between as an engineer specializing in COMM systems, Computerized Traffic Signal Systems and fiber optic and copper-based WAN/LAN Network design. He also worked in an IT role prior to the New Millenium on the Y2K “bug” for consultants to the government of Washington, DC, and the US Federal Bureau of Land Management.

In 1980 - after graduating a year early from the Boy's Latin School of Maryland - he travelled to Bombay, India to seek admission at the government FTII - only to be turned away due to a closure caused by the Institute's proximity to the Pune Ashram of Osho - which was annexing many of its students into its fold.

His father CVG Krishna Rao's elder brother,, film producer CVK Sastry - found work for him in the interim as an apprentice to Bombay cameraman Dharam Chopra - and after waiting 6 months for the Pune Film Institute to reopen - decided to call it quits to return to his native Maryland to pursue his college studies at the University of Maryland - and later Pratt Institute in New York.

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Bachelors Eng.       1988       Pratt Institute         Brooklyn, New York

MS Architecture 2017 SFIA.net

MFA Creative Writing (Fiction Emphasis) National University San Diego, California 2015

 
​Citizenship : United States of America / Overseas Citizen of India (OCI)



​History/Experiences:
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July 2022 to Present

Administrative Assistant / Clerical Worker
pAdNiL LLC
Ellicott City, Maryland

Assist the CEO of a
​1099 contracting company
which offers design services
in UX and UI design.


2003 to 2022
Artist - Writer - Designer
Emma Dress LLC

Bethesda, Ellicott City - Maryland, United States
 Dondapadu Village o/s Eluru town, India


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​8/2001 – 4/2003

Engineer (Signals & Communication)
City of Alexandria,
Transportation & Environmental Services

Alexandria, VA 
Traffic Signal Systems Engineer

 
2001

Engineer - Electrical
ESE Engineers and Architects
Rockville, Maryland 
 
Electrical Design

 
8/1998 – 2001

Engineer - Transportation (Electrical)
Electrical Operations
California State Dept. Of Transportation (CALTRANS)
San Bernardino, California 
Signal Operations, Timing & Design

 
1997/1998

Engineer – IT Infrastructure
Adsystech Corporation
Silver Spring, Maryland 
 
programmer/analyst

 
1997

Engineer – IT Infrastructure
CTA Corporation
Rockville, Maryland 
programmer/analyst 

1997

Engineer – IT Support Systems Potomac Electric Power Co. (PEPCO)
Washington, DC 
 associate programmer/analyst

 
1996

Engineer - Electrical (Construction)
MC Dean Electrical Contractors
BWI Thurgood Marshall International Airport (on site) 
 field engineer / cost estimator

 
1995

Engineer - Systems
Reston Consulting Group
Herndon, Virginia
Systems Engineer

 
2/1991-5/1994

Engineer - Assistant Electrical
New York City Transit Authority
New York, NY  ~ COMM Designer

 
2/1988 – 2/1989

 Field Engineer
FONAR Corporation
Mellville, New York



  • ABOUT
  • PRESS
  • PAST EXHIBITS AND INVITATIONS
  • WORK-IN-PROGRESS (ENGLISH)
  • పని పురోగతిలో ఉంది (తెలుగు)
  • Work-In-Progress : Vizag Blue
  • ComicCons : FHM (INDIA) TOP 17 COMICS OF 2012
  • Rainbow FM Hyderabad
  • "Bonfire of Convention" : my first public exhibit 2005
  • Montgomery County, Maryland Gazette 2009
  • August 15, 2008 India Abroad
  • MFA Thesis Novel : BHARATHI
  • Film Project 2003
  • Debonair Magazine 2005 2006
  • My Poetry Work
  • ARTWORK FOR PURCHASE : PHYSICAL & NFTS
  • CVH RAO BOOK
  • Late Dad: Dr CVG Krishna Rao MD FACR