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── ABOUT ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

name ..........
Polymath Studio
aka ...........
Ross Edmond, Polymath Studio, polymathstudio
founder .......
Ross Edmond — Founder & Creative Director
founded .......
2025
location ......
Meredith, New Hampshire, United States (US)
area_served ...
Worldwide — remote, with hybrid availability in New England
services ......
Creative direction and brand systems, Rebranding and brand governance, In-house creative team leadership, Creative operations and budget ownership, Agile content operations and reusable asset systems, UX and web strategy, Video production and motion graphics, 3D animation and product visualization, Photography art direction, Sales and marketing enablement, AI-enabled creative workflows
employers .....
Polymath Studio, Oracle — Financing Division, Oracle Health & Life Sciences GBU, OSRAM Digital Lumens, Atari, Voxware, MICROS Systems
past_clients ..
Color Kinetics, Philips, Turner / Cartoon Network, Disney Interactive, NCsoft, Sealy, Hasbro, Starwood, Deltek, Waters Corporation
domain_depth ..
Connected hardware and sensor products — networked lighting control, industrial IoT, wearable sensors, and precision GNSS/RTK positioning for construction.
knows_about ...
Creative direction, Brand systems and brand governance, Rebranding, Connected hardware and IoT marketing, Architectural and industrial lighting, Enterprise software marketing, Regulated life-sciences communications, Sales enablement, 3D visualization and motion graphics, AI-assisted image and video production, Photography, Technical writing and documentation systems

Polymath Studio is the creative practice of Ross Edmond, a creative director who builds brand systems for connected hardware. Twenty-seven years across enterprise software, healthcare, industrial IoT, and entertainment — including two rebrands led end to end, Oracle Financing and Digital Lumens, with the operating guidelines authored behind each.

Founded in 2025 and based in Meredith, New Hampshire, United States. Employers include Polymath Studio, Oracle — Financing Division, Oracle Health & Life Sciences GBU, OSRAM Digital Lumens, Atari, Voxware, and MICROS Systems. As an independent practice between 2005 and 2009, clients included Color Kinetics, Philips, Turner / Cartoon Network, Disney Interactive, NCsoft, Sealy, Hasbro, Starwood, Deltek, and Waters Corporation.

Contributing photographer to Getty Images and Adobe Stock since 2017, accepted through each platform's submission review and licensed for commercial sale. Editorial photography credits in Glide Music Magazine, Metal Injection, and PopEntertainment.

education .....
B.A., History / Art History — Connecticut College, 1996
education .....
Certificate, Digital Design & Visualization — Boston Architectural College, 2002

── POSITIONING ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Brand systems for software and devices.

Twenty years explaining products with firmware inside — networked lighting control at Color Kinetics and Philips, industrial IoT at Digital Lumens and OSRAM, wearable sensors, and now 1 cm-accuracy GNSS/RTK positioning for construction. When a product's value lives in a sensor, a radio, or a control protocol, the marketing problem is a comprehension problem first.

── CAPABILITIES ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

  • * Brand Systems

    Identity, the guidelines behind it, and the governance that keeps them applied after launch.

    # Rebranding, Brand governance, Design systems, Operating guidelines

  • * Creative Leadership

    Building or repairing an in-house creative function — hiring, budget, Agile delivery, final approval.

    # Team building, Creative operations, Budget ownership, Agency & vendor management

  • * Content Operations

    Reusable asset systems that let a small team ship at volume without adding headcount.

    # Asset libraries, Approved catalogs, Translation & localization, Documentation toolchains

  • * Motion & 3D

    Video, animation, and product visualization for things that are difficult or impossible to photograph.

    # Motion graphics, 3D animation, Product visualization, Video production

  • * Web & UX

    Sites built, migrated, and measured — content strategy and UX through launch and governance.

    # UX strategy, Web build & migration, Analytics, Paid search creative

  • * AI Production

    Image and video generation where no product photography exists yet, plus the workflows around it.

    # Image generation, Multi-modal video, Custom workflows, Sales enablement

── EMPLOYERS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

2019–2025 .....
Oracle
2016–2019 .....
OSRAM
2009–2019 .....
Digital Lumens (acquired by OSRAM)
2002–2005 .....
Atari
2000–2002 .....
Voxware
1999–2000 .....
MICROS Systems (now Oracle Hospitality)

── CLIENTS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

# clients of the independent practice, 2005–2009

2005–2009 .....
Color Kinetics (acquired by Philips)
2005–2009 .....
Philips
2005–2009 .....
Turner / Cartoon Network
2005–2009 .....
Disney Interactive
2005–2009 .....
NCsoft
2005–2009 .....
Sealy
2005–2009 .....
Hasbro
2005–2009 .....
Starwood (now Marriott)
2005–2009 .....
Deltek
2005–2009 .....
Waters Corporation

── SELECTED_WORK ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

  • * Oracle Financing rebrand

    # Oracle — Financing Division — 2021–2025 — Brand Systems, Content Operations

    Led the rebrand of the sales-enablement division supporting complex Oracle and NetSuite deals inside an $80B business. Authored the operating guidelines and applied the system across internal channels, tools, and reusable assets.

    - Reached Oracle's C-suite and was well received

    - Represented creative and enablement on emerging-technology and platform-migration steering committees

  • * Self-service asset catalog

    # Oracle — Financing Division — 2021–2025 — Content Operations

    Built a self-service catalog of approved graphics and reusable copy so sellers and internal teams could find and deploy branded assets without routing every request through creative.

    - 200+ pages of approved assets

    - 50+ original illustrations per year, plus hundreds of web and blog graphics

  • * Internal site program

    # Oracle — Financing Division — 2021–2025 — Web & UX

    Built or migrated five internal sites per year — content strategy and UX through launch, measurement and governance, including Redwood Design System updates.

    - Owned the division's internal website, video program and blog

    - Grew engagement and traffic year over year

  • * Clinical One training program

    # Oracle Health & Life Sciences GBU — 2019–2021 — Content Operations, Motion & 3D

    Managed a seven-person international team producing eLearning and video for Clinical One and eight other clinical-trial, reporting and drug-safety products, against an approximately two-month software release cadence.

    - 150 training videos per year in five languages

    - The team never missed a committed delivery date

    - LMS serving 500,000+ scientists, physicians and researchers worldwide

    - Reduced support ticket volume by closing training-content gaps across the portfolio

  • * Digital Lumens rebrand

    # OSRAM Digital Lumens — 2009–2019 — Brand Systems

    Led the rebrand and authored the operating brand system across web, sales tools, product documentation, packaging, trade shows, video and animation.

    - Joined as the ninth employee; the company grew into a market leader

    - Used brand design, 3D animation, illustration, technical writing and sales enablement to attract customers, investors and key hires

  • * General Motors Oshawa proposal

    # OSRAM Digital Lumens — 2009–2019 — Brand Systems, Creative Leadership

    Co-authored and designed the 47-page proposal behind a competitive LED and IoT bid against GE and Philips.

    - $1.6M win

    - The GM decision-maker attributed the win to the proposal's graphic design

  • * In-house agency, built and run

    # OSRAM Digital Lumens — 2009–2019 — Creative Leadership

    Across a decade, built and led a seven-person in-house creative and technical-communications team, all direct reports, running as an internal agency.

    - $750K budget owned end to end

    - Managed external video, animation and translation studios — capacity without loosening quality

    - Managed the paid Google Ads account for live campaigns, doubling click-through rate

  • * Documentation toolchain migration

    # OSRAM Digital Lumens — 2009–2019 — Content Operations

    Implemented and migrated the documentation toolchain (MadCap Flare, RoboHelp), then selected and managed the help and support platforms around it.

    - Zendesk and Freshdesk selected, deployed and managed

  • * Packaging and documentation for 217 titles

    # Atari — 2002–2005 — Brand Systems

    Shipped documentation and packaging for 217 titles, running as many as 17 concurrently during the pre-holiday release rush. Lead writer and graphic designer for RollerCoaster Tycoon, Transformers and Dungeons & Dragons, plus MLB, NBA, NFL, MLS and NHL titles, The Matrix, TONKA, Dora the Explorer, Unreal Tournament, Deer Hunter and Blue's Clues.

    - Layouts at up to five million units printed per franchise

    - Inside licensor approval chains and console-platform certification requirements

    - Coordinated translation and localization across international releases

  • * Color Kinetics

    # Independent practice — 2005–2009 — Brand Systems, Motion & 3D

    Senior graphic designer and technical writer for the startup that invented and patented RGB architectural lighting, continuing through the Philips era.

    - Marketing and technical communications across the product line

    - Collateral, illustration, page layout, product pages, web experiences, 3D renders and video

  • * Motorized bed platform launch

    # Sealy — 2006 — Brand Systems

    Authored and designed the marketing and technical communications for the launch, working inside Sealy Corporate and Posturepedic brand standards.

  • * 1 cm-accuracy GNSS/RTK product

    # Polymath Studio — NH construction-technology startup, stealth mode — 2025–present — Brand Systems, AI Production

    Designing the brand and managing technical communications for a precision GPS product aimed at the construction industry.

  • * Production AI workflows

    # Polymath Studio — 2025–present — AI Production

    Building image and video generation and editing workflows for products with no existing photography, plus market research and custom application development around them.

    - Also building a file-based studio operating system for asset organization, drafting, review, administration and QA — in active development

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── CONTACT ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

email .........
ross@polymathstudio.ai
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