Roger Brown's Bio :: Where the Gears are Always Turning!

Roger’s Bio

Roger Brown lives in North Augusta, South Carolina with his wife and two children. He started out writing jokes for a local morning radio show while in high school. This led to writing gags for nationally syndicated comic strips, magazine Cartoonists and Cracked magazine as a regular for 10 years. Which led him to writing for Marvel comics, D.C. Comics, Disney comics and a long list of other national publications.

Roger attended USC Aiken and USC, but received no degree due to changing majors. He was a Biology/Pre-Med, Broadcast Journalism major. During this time period he was hired by DuPont at the Savannah River Site as a Reactor Operator producing weapons grade plutonium.

He is credited with saving the company millions of dollars through inventions, modifications to existing equipment and safety related issues.

Over a 20 year employment Roger received numerous awards for his inventions and creative thinking. One of Roger’s most notable awards was the National Doe Pollution Prevention award for his invention the “Super Sleever” A portable sleeving device that saved 4 million dollars a year in waste reduction for the Savannah River Site and is used throughout the DOE complex nationally.

Realizing his potential for creating marketable inventions Roger turned to the private sector.

Today he has inventions licensed in the toy, tool, kitchen, eyewear, and nuclear industries. He has gotten all his products licensed and on the market spending less than $100 on each and some for as little as $8. They are Knockout Hockey, Power Pitch Horseshoes, Quick Clip, Pizza Scissors, Super Sleever, Ball Valve Extractor tool and most recently the Pebble Peeler. He has two more kitchen gadgets slated to hit store shelves in 2011.

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Roger has been a coach and mentor to Inventors interested in learning how to get their inventions licensed and to market with very little investment. His methods have attracted the attention of T.V. news, national news radio shows, Inventor magazines, and Blogs wanting interviews about his untraditional success. He had the honor of being a panel reviewer for Everyday Edison’s T.V. show at the Chicago auditions.

Roger has been a guest speaker at colleges wanting to inspire their students about innovation and how to acquire licensing agreements. He is a respected contributor on Inventor forums such as:

With his no nonsense approach Roger has made himself the person to contact for the beginning Inventor.

Roger has written a book titled “Guerilla Inventing” about his methods and experiences in the inventing world. The planned release date is early 2010. You can contact him via this website at rbrown@rogerbrown.net if you would like to be contacted when the book is released.