Inventor

An inventor is someone whose primary occupation is creating new products or services.

Data, after having traveled back in time to 1893, claimed that he was an inventor upon being asked by Jack London. London had just agreed to use Data's money to purchase a list of items that Data intended to use to construct a device to detect shifts through time. 

Berlinghoff Rasmussen was an inventor in the 22nd century from New Jersey. 

Dr. Zefram Cochrane was credited as being the inventor of warp drive.