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I've been making products for nearly 15 years with deep expertise in hardware product development, industrial design, and management consulting.
My work spans consumer electronics, power tools, defense equipment, toys and games, visual brand languages, design-to-value, product management, manufacturing and supply chain efficiency, and agentic AI platforms.
Please enjoy my selected works and product articles or jump to my resume.
Feel free to reach me at rosscbrinkman@gmail.com.
In 2018 I founded Kearney's Product Of The Month editorial, serving as Editor and Head Writer leading a small team to research and generate perspectives on everyday products. Our focus are products that carry a deeper macro-scale meaning across the product, design, development, and supply chain landscapes.
Tabeltop game design studio creating intuitive, approachable, and novel games utilizing the principles of play and UX / ID.
- Led global team to create firm's first agentic AI platform, Velocity, focused on reducing product development timelines by 50% at 50% of the cost.
- Winner of Kearney's 2025 Global Innovators Day (pitch competition)
- Defense electronics DtV program to reduce supply chain costs by $120M and increase product resiliency.
- SBD instruction manual DtV reducing page count by 40%, paper usage by 36 tons, and $18M in annual cost.
- Product due diligence and platform development for water service giant.
- Created monthly in-depth product review series.
- Created business development position to reduce project and revenue bottleneck.
- Restructured project management to reduce timelines while mitigating budget overrun.
- Established cost structure and proposal templates to consistently track costs.
- Developed new business, managed projects, mentored young design team, and coordinated external vendors and partners.
- Built client relationship developing innovative digital power technology for commercial communications (client size: $1B).
- Led innovation projects for established (client size: $23M) and startup (series d: $50.6M) food industry firms.
- Constructed product vision and roadmap with VP of Design for Fortune 100 client (division size: $323M).
- Led multidisciplinary team of 12 through research, industrial design, UX development, and brand strategy for high priority project.
- Coordinated firm’s largest global project between 4 internal and competing firms across China, Japan, USA, and Germany.
- Led clients through product development process, coordinating design and engineering teams in USA, Serbia, Germany, and China.
- Guided Fortune 100 firm’s global power tools product portfolio and brand guidelines (portfolio size: $3.3B).
- Co-invented hyper low cost handheld eye exam device designed to increase accessibility to necessary optometric services.
- Increased adoption of innovative pharmaceutical manufacturing and research technology by 10x (client size: $1.8B).
- Designed and deployed innovative mobile battery sharing platform for Fortune 500 firm (client size: $9.8B).
- Created relationship between outdoors brand and Apple by developing innovative hardware product (brand size: $7B).
- Kre-o building block designs put into production.
- Concentrations: Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Finance, Strategy
- Clubs: Studio Booth (Co-Chair), Product Management, Marketing, Running, Dumpling
- Industrial Designer Society of America, Member
- Men's Water Polo, Captain
- Women's Water Polo, Coach
