Biography

jeffrey L. Rubin is an experienced proven leader, executive, and manager, with  a successful career at Comsat Corporation and an equally successful career as an Program Manager and Entrepreneur.

GENERAL BACKGROUND

As a senior operational Program Manager, Mr. Rubin is expert in establishing objectives, plans and budgets, managing operational, financial and technical performance, maintaining quality, achieving customer satisfaction, providing leadership and guidance to staff at all levels, serving as the principal contact with customers and corporate partners, establishing a work culture that generates loyalty, and using business relationships to identify and capture new business.

As a business executive, Mr. Rubin has restructured three businesses, founded two, and sold one to a NASDAQ corporation. He has arranged asset sales, transferred business assets, sales of divisions, and has worked with creditors, customers, stockholders, investors, and staff. He has conceived and led the development of three software and one hardware products, all of which became leaders in their respective industries.

As the founder of a 15 year old small business, JNR Associates, Mr. Rubin grew a sole owner business to a group of 16 staff members supporting a broad range of software development services and products.

THE JNR LLC PERIOD

For the Doyle Group, he developed business strategies, budgets and plans for new business entries in insurance related specialties, including a five year plan to grow the business five-fold with minimal risk.

For Diagnosys USA, he delivered an immediately implementable and measurable business plan for an electronic hardware support business. Included in the Final Report were start-up tasks, MS Project schedule, 5 year Excel profit and loss projection, draft MS Word RFQ to solicit current customers, and detailed by-item hardware cost estimate with purchasing sources.

For CDI Government Services, he provided a major contribution to Red Team review of 36M marine services proposal, which was the awarded to CDI in March, 2013.

For CEVA Logistics, he created Board level investment plans for multi-location $100K -- $1.5M warehouse and final mile transportation projects.  In addition, he developed techniques to more efficiently manage capacity and resources.

2007-2010 -- Mr. Rubin led a Florida based effort to raise $3,000,000 to implement an advanced SaaS smartphone/tablet based Electronic Health Records system that encompassed all of the features necesarry to run a small practice without overstressing the practices' financial performance.  Mr. Rubin developed one and five year pro-forma estimates, created a top-level technical design, wrote detailed business plan, launched promotional website and prepared summary, marketing, and technology briefings. 

He initiated development of a MYSQL database and negotiated a cost-shared University contract for an Android mobile prototype to interface the patient information database to the video and audio capabilities of mobile devices.  In parallel, he identified potential partners/investors, teaming with a financial/business expert to credibly present to potential funding sources.   This effort ended when investors were frightened by the Republican victory in the 2010 election.

Mr. Rubin then initiated a project to gain Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.  That project met its goals with a successful first try PMP exam.  He is now seeking an opportunity to contribute to the growth of an organization that can take advantage of his extensive experience, skills, interests and indefatigable energy.

THE JNR ASSOCIATES PERIOD

In 2007, after a successful dual career in large and small companies, Mr. Rubin sold the main product line of JNR Associates, his project/product oriented consulting company.  After an incipient partnership with a biotechnology company ended when the biotech ran out of funding, JNR suspended active operation and Mr. Rubin relocated to Ponte Vedra, FL. 

EDO

Mr. Rubin began his consulting career by serving as a near full time Product Manager for over six years as a consultant to EDO Corporation/AIL Systems. He was charged by EDO with bringing Telelogistics, a complex Internet/Oracle/Java and Web based logistics focused Content Management System (CMS) to market.  This work was well ahead of the time that such products became common on the Internet. Mr. Rubin was responsible for product definition, development, pricing, positioning and distribution. He recruited an expert team of developers that became the core of JNR Associates, and integrated this group into a cross-functional JNR/EDO team of engineering, quality assurance, product testing, marketing, operations, document conversion and sales that built, launched and delivered the product into the DOD marketplace for customers in the United States Air Force and Navy.

SIKORSKY

In parallel with the EDO consulting work, he established a long term relationship with Sikorsky Corporation for the Comanche helicopter program, turning a highly visible failing FoxPro software project into a highly successful Oracle system  that collected maintenance and reliability data working at three sites.  This work continually expanded until the prime helicopter contract was cancelled by the Department of Defense.

COMTECH

For Comtech Mobile Datacom, he recruited a team that repaired a crash-prone theater deployed operational UNIX based real time messaging system, successfully restoring the system to 100% operational status in less than six months.

All of this was accomplished by recruiting highly qualified and skilled professionals, managing using an empowered objective based style that has creating corporate loyalty and instilled a natural focus on customer success.

 ICONVERT/RAYTHEON

Mr. Rubin extended the basic Telelogistics technology by spearheading the successful development and release to market of IConvert, an advanced fuzzy logic based Windows .Net product that converts paper, PDF and image material to XML. He established a marketing partnership with a division of Raytheon Corporation and successfully delivered thousands of pages of converted material to the US Army.  After funding for such conversions was impacted by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,  he successfully sold the IConvert technology to Inmedius Corporation, (http://www.inmedius.com/iconvert.html). Inmedius integrated it into a comprehensive state-of-the-art XML Authoring and Conversion Environment.

THE LCTI, INC. PERIOD

Mr. Rubin formed a partnership with a group of experienced automatic test engineers and funded the development of LEXSYS, a comprehensive suite of automatic test programming tools, including Test Requirements Documentation (TRD), TRD to CASS, IFTE and 716-89 ATLAS programming language translation, ATLAS editing, syntax and semantic checking, and test wiring diagram generation.

Mr. Rubin designed the product roadmap, employed early Windows versions for useability and the C language for development and Rapid Prototyping to bring the multiple module system expeditiously to market.  He developed pricing and marketing strategies and launched LEXSYS at  Autotestcon Conferences and US Navy and US Army annual software tool fairs, gaining market share and becoming the leading MS Windows Automatic Test TRD/ATLAS Transformation Programming System of its time. 

Mr. Rubin grew the company from 5 to 32 staff members recruiting high level mathematics focused software developers and knowledgeable, productive sales personnel.  In 1994, Mr. Rubin led the acquisition of a next generation contract from the C17 aircraft program and to obtain sufficient development capital,  sold LCTI to Comarco, Inc. a NASDAQ corporation and the first LCTI LEXSYS customer.

THE LEXICO ENTERPRISES PERIOD

Mr. Rubin was recruited by the LEXICO Board of Directors as Executive Vice President to assist in rescuing a 32 person $3,000,000 automatic test engineering software products company that had fallen into a financially untenable situation.  After a period, Mr. Rubin was appointed CEO and directed to extract the Board from the situation. 

He then sold assets where possible to reduce debt, closed an expensive West Coast office and exited a grosslyt underfinanced international contract by a profitable technology transfer agreement with the French sponsor.  After stabilizing the situation, the senior Board owned debt and remaining technology were transitioned to support the founding of LCTI.

THE COMSAT PERSONAL GROWTH PERIOD

At Comsat, Mr. Rubin had a distinguished 20 year career, progressing from program management specialist to General Manager of two smaller Comsat businesses, preparing each for divestiture.

At Comsat Laboratoriesm, Mr. Rubin was appointed Deputy Program Manager for the Comstar 20/30 GHZ Centimeter Wave Beacon Transmitter Project, which built 5 space qualified systems for launch on the AT@T Comstar communications satellites.  Mr.  Rubin was the first manager at Comsat to employ PERT planning techniques to measure project performance and employed other unique techniques to bring the program back to plan when it begain to fall behind.  He also became the Quality champion for the project, actively supporting efforts to insure compliance with spacecraft level procedures.

Also at Comsat Laboratories, he developed a 6 department Manufacturing Control System (MCS) to track the myriad Beacon Transmitter piece part items from design through integration.  At the conclusion of the Beacon Transmitter Project, Mr. Rubin became Director of Manufacturing Operations. Over a six year period he  doubling the size of its five departments to 160 persons, created the first manufacturable echo canceller and operated MCS until it was transitioned to the larger IBM Copics system.

As subsequent head of Corporate Business Systems, reporting to the Comsat Corporate CFO, he lead a reorganization effort that centralized a number of disparate, but parallel software development and computer systems management groups.  At the end of this effort, he was selected to attend the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development, under full Comsat corporate sponsorship.

Returning from Harvard as a Corporate Strategic Planning Group member, Mr. Rubin developed the simplified financial model that provided the impetus for Comsat to exit its Direct Broadcast Satellite Venture prior to exhausting its capital resources.

As Vice President/General Manager of Compact Software, a manufacturer of microwave design software, he restored a failing business to profitability within six months by refocusing to meet a new challenge from a PC based competitor. He then located the eventual buyer for the business, who grew it ten-fold prior to selling it again.

As Vice President/General Manager of Comsat Mobile Systems, a manufacturer of Inmarsat Satellite Communications Terminals, Mr. Rubin initiated the development of what became known as the "single suitcase terminal", and corrected a major RF Interference flaw in the existing stationary ship-mounted system. Subsequently, the business was sold and sales increased from $3,000,000 annually to $30,000,000 annually.

Mr. Rubin attended the Executive Development Program at the University of Virginia Darden School, the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development, holds a Master of Engineering Administration from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.   He is a Certified Project Management Professional.