1. Lisa Seacat DeLuca

2. Early Life and Education

3. Career

4. Inventions and Ideas

5. Awards and Achievements

6. References

Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Lisa Seacat DeLuca is a software engineer and inventor at IBM.[https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson-customer-engagement/2017/06/13/umbrellas-query-based-volume-determination-life-inventor/] She is also the founder of ‘Splittix’ , a website that allows baseball fans to buy multiple seats at an event, paying for the length of time spent in each seat. De Luca has filed more than 500 patents of which 370 have been granted.

Early Life and Education

DeLuca graduated with a degree in computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, followed by a master’s degree in Technology Commercialisation at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas.[https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaseacat/]During her time at university she worked as an intern in software engineering positions. DeLuca’s first encounter with IBM was in the summer of her junior year when she was accepted into IBM’s “Extreme Blue” Program in Raleigh, a 12-week global internship. In 2017, DeLuca received an honorary PhD from Claremont University.

Career

Before beginning her final year at Carnegie Mellon University, DeLuca accepted a position with IBM in Austin. In 2014, she was the youngest IBM employee and the first woman in IBM’s history to reach its 100th Invention Plateau Achievement Award, a point system developed to reward patent filings and issuances.[https://www.networkworld.com/article/2286302/infrastructure-management/143766-The-fascinating-50.html#slide7] Network World has identified DeLuca as one of the 50 most fascinating people in the world of technology. Today, she is a distinguished engineer and director of offering management at IBM and is recognised as their most prolific female inventor.

Inventions and Ideas

De Luca's creations include a net of lights controlled by a smart device, a pendant necklace that lights up when a certain hashtag on twitter is mentioned and a laundry NFC which alerts one’s smart phone when their laundry is ready. [https://www.renzoebox.com/renzoeblog/lisa-seacat-deluca][https://laundrynfc.com/]

DeLuca is also recognised as an author, having self-published two children’s books titled, “A Robot Story” [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lisadeluca/a-robot-story-learn-to-count-to-ten-in-binary/posts/1785904] and "The Internet of Mysterious Things" [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lisadeluca/internet-of-mysterious-things-iomt?token=de67c203] which teach kids how to count to ten in binary.

Awards and Achievements

In 2017, Lisa came second in LinkedIn’s ‘Top Voices in Technology’ list, was ranked 6th in Onalytica’s list of Top Female IoT Influencers and received an honorary PhD from Claremont University. As well as this, IBM awarded Lisa ‘Working Mother of the Year’ for the Working Mother Magazine in 2015. DeLuca is also a TED speaker, in 2014 she spoke about ‘A young inventor's vision of the future’ [https://www.womenofwearables.com/new-blog/wow-woman-in-iot-lisa-seacat-deluca-ibm-distinguished-engineer-ted-speaker-author-and-inventor]. Recently, Lisa was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame. DeLuca states in an interview with Marija Butkovic that to her the #WomeninTech movement means providing role models and proof that women can be making waves in technology which is exactly what DeLuca has accomplished. [https://www.womenofwearables.com/new-blog/wow-woman-in-iot-lisa-seacat-deluca-ibm-distinguished-engineer-ted-speaker-author-and-inventor]

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