Lisa Simone

Lisa is an engineer, researcher and educator who enjoys exploring the world of embedded systems and sharing it with others.

She wrote her first program on an Atari 800 in 1983, and then cobbled together enough money assembling embedded systems to buy her first 'modern day' computer (part by part) several years later. Since then, she has developed a wide range of products including medical diagnostic instruments, industrial automation and robotics, scientific measurement devices, and mobile phones and wireless sensor systems.

Lisa's experience includes pure research through product deployment. As a senior engineer at International Technidyne Corporation, she designed and developed hardware and software for portable blood coagulation devices. At Lucent Technologies and Motorola, she became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff for her contributions to mobile phone architecture, integration and performance, and for managing and training new embedded engineers. She designed and implemented assembly line automation for Spadix Technologies, and led bioinstrumentation research at Kessler Medical Research. She enjoys mentoring students and engineers, and volunteers as a judge and coordinator for student technology and engineering research paper and design competitions.

Lisa recently redesigned the Capstone Design program as a biomedical engineering research professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, where she taught engineering design, embedded, and biomedical engineering. Through her consulting company, she designs devices and methods to understand and assess human movement disorders caused by injury or disease (brain injury, spinal cord injury, MS).

Lisa received a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She also holds a Masters in the management of technology (technical MBA) from the Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania.

Lisa currently resides in Bridgewater, New Jersey, with her husband and two high-maintenance cats, one of whom was the ever-present editor of Phone on Fire. She loves scuba diving and underwater photography, reading and writing.