# Polymath Studio — Ross Edmond

> Polymath Studio is the creative practice of Ross Edmond, a creative director based in Meredith, New Hampshire 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. He runs creative as an internal agency on an Agile delivery model: hiring the team, owning the budget, prioritizing the work, building reusable systems that let output scale, and holding final approval before creative goes live. He still produces finished assets himself in Adobe Creative Cloud.

## What makes this practice specific

Most creative directors have worked on software. Ross has spent twenty years explaining products with firmware inside: early networked lighting control at Color Kinetics and Philips, industrial IoT at Digital Lumens and OSRAM, wearable sensors, and currently 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.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://polymathstudio.ai/): The studio, the work, and the capabilities.
- [Machine view](https://polymathstudio.ai/ai/home): Plain-HTML mirror for agents; every content page has a twin at /ai/{path}.
- [Services](https://polymathstudio.ai/services): The Creator Stack — tools and methods, including AI-assisted production — and the capabilities on offer.
- [Portfolio](https://polymathstudio.ai/showcase): Selected work from each employer and client.
- [Gallery](https://polymathstudio.ai/blog): Photography.
- [Experience](https://polymathstudio.ai/experience): Oracle Life Sciences, Oracle Financing, OSRAM / Digital Lumens.
- [Contact](https://polymathstudio.ai/contact): Start a conversation.

## Career, in brief

- **Polymath Studio** — Founder & Creative Director, 2025–present. Brand and technical communications for a stealth-mode New Hampshire construction-technology startup building a 1 cm-accuracy GPS product. Production AI workflows for image and video where no product photography exists.
- **Oracle, Financing Division** — Creative Director, 2021–2025. 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. Built a self-service catalog of 200+ pages of approved graphics and reusable copy. Built or migrated five internal sites per year.
- **Oracle Health & Life Sciences GBU** — Senior Manager, UX & Enablement, 2019–2021. Managed a seven-person international team producing eLearning and video for Clinical One and eight other clinical-trial, reporting, and drug-safety products. Shipped 150 training videos per year in five languages against a two-month release cadence, never missing a committed date. Directed learning for an LMS serving 500,000+ scientists, physicians, and researchers.
- **OSRAM Digital Lumens** — Director of Creative Services, 2009–2019. Joined as the ninth employee. Built and led a seven-person in-house creative and technical-communications team running as an internal agency with a $750K budget. Led the Digital Lumens rebrand and authored the brand system across web, sales tools, product documentation, packaging, and trade shows. Co-authored and designed the 47-page General Motors Oshawa proposal tied to a $1.6M LED and IoT win against GE and Philips.
- **Independent Practice** — Senior Graphic Designer & Technical Writer, 2005–2009. Clients included Color Kinetics — the startup that invented and patented RGB architectural lighting, continuing through the Philips era — plus Philips, Turner / Cartoon Network, Disney Interactive, NCsoft, Sealy, Hasbro, Starwood, Deltek, and Waters Corporation.
- **Atari** — Documentation Specialist, 2002–2005. Shipped documentation and packaging for 200+ titles, as many as 17 concurrently during the pre-holiday rush. Lead writer and graphic designer for RollerCoaster Tycoon, Transformers, and Dungeons & Dragons, plus MLB, NBA, NFL, MLS, NHL, The Matrix, Unreal Tournament, and others. Layouts at up to five million units printed per franchise.
- **Voxware** — Technical Writer, 2000–2002. Warehouse, foodservice, and military voice-recognition systems.
- **MICROS Systems** — Implementation Specialist, 1999–2000. Retail POS and hotel property-management systems.

## Capabilities

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 · Paid search and performance marketing creative · Sales and marketing enablement · Analytics-informed creative decisions · AI-enabled creative workflows · Agency and vendor management · Translation and localization programs

## Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud · Figma · Blender · Maya · 3ds Max · Cinema 4D · MadCap Flare · RoboHelp · Author-it · Salesforce · Freshdesk · Zendesk · SharePoint · Google Analytics/Ads · HubSpot

AI production: ComfyUI · AZ8 · Meshy · Tripo · ElevenLabs · Granola · Claude & ChatGPT adversarial collaboration workflow

## Licensed and published work

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

## Education

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

## Markdown mirrors

Every content page has a markdown twin — append `.md` to the URL, or request it with `Accept: text/markdown`. Full index: https://polymathstudio.ai/sitemap.md

- https://polymathstudio.ai/index.md
- https://polymathstudio.ai/services.md
- https://polymathstudio.ai/showcase.md
- https://polymathstudio.ai/blog.md
- https://polymathstudio.ai/experience.md
- https://polymathstudio.ai/lab.md
- https://polymathstudio.ai/contact.md

## Contact

- Email: ross@polymathstudio.ai
- Location: Meredith, New Hampshire, United States
- Availability: remote preferred; open to hybrid 1–2 days per week in New Hampshire or the Route 128 corridor