Isaac Brewer
Isaac is the VP of Programs for RPM Builds with over 20 years of project management and implementation experience. As a project executive, he seeks to consider multiple contingencies and implement those pre-developed plans as the need arises. Before working on industrial systems, Isaac worked as a project investigator and lead systems engineer in government and industry projects in intelligence, emergency management, geographic information science and cyber security. Dr. Brewer earned his BA from Pittsburg State, MS from Oregon State, and his Ph.D. at Penn State. Isaac is committed to a ‘hands on’ approach to project execution, ‘boots-on-the-ground’ operational work, and the application of critical thinking in solution execution.
Dr. Brewer’s educational training and published research lies in the intersections of geoscience and technologies. He believes approaching all problems requires one to apply multiple scales of analysis, e.g. local, regional and global. He has taught courses at OSU, the University of Hawaii and Penn State University and held research fellowships with the EPA, PNNL, and the DCI program. His research focused on collaborative system design with humans-in-the-loop. This approach directly translated to the design of collaborative process control and material handling systems with RPM Builds.
Isaac first joined the Redpoint systems development team, the core of which founded RPM Builds, as an independent project management and system consultant. That team developed and executed multimillion dollar projects annually for over a decade. Building on his education and industry background, he discovered that too often well intended system designers focus on designing solutions without fully understanding the end users’ needs. In these cases, they do not pause to ask whether they are designing the wrong system. Simply put, the outcome is the difference between designing a great system and designing the correct solution. This stylistic approach, paired with multi-scale analyses are attributes Isaac brings to RPM Builds systems development and project implementation programs.
In his personal life, Isaac likes to find any instance where one is able to ‘freeze time.’ For him, the pauses can occur with smooth glass on a slalom, a service ace, hiking and kayaking, campfire moments, and perfect chord progressions; but mostly, they happen during quality time with close family and friends. Isaac and his wife, Penny, love to host family gatherings and when possible, travel and explore. Following the philosophy that the shortest distance between two points is no fun, he always endeavors to take a new route when traveling in an effort to see local out of the way spots on while attempting to visit all of the national parks and counties of the United States.
