SEMICON West 2016

Alissa Fitzgerald
Managing Member
A M Fitzgerald & Associates


Alissa M. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Founder & Managing Member, A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC Dr. Fitzgerald founded the company in 2003. She has over 20 years of engineering experience in MEMS design, fabrication and product development. Having developed more than a dozen distinct MEMS devices during her career, she now advises clients on the entire technology development cycle, from business and IP strategy, to initial design and prototyping, to foundry transfer. Prior to founding AMFitzgerald, Dr. Fitzgerald worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Sigpro, and Sensant Corporation, now part of Siemens. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT and her doctorate from Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Fitzgerald has numerous journal publications and holds seven patents. She served on the Governing Council of the MEMS Industry Group (MIG) from 2008-2014. In 2013, she was inducted into the MIG Hall of Fame.

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