Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin, a former Netflix and Adobe executive, is an educator, entrepreneur, and photographer."Writing the Revolution", by Wallace Baine; published in Santa Cruz Sentinel, on 2005-10-16
== Education ==
Rubin graduated from Brown University with a degree in neuroscience in 1985. The story of his college application was syndicated,"Student Defies Convention and the Odds", by James H. Ludwin, UPI; published in Hartford Courant, on 1984-03-04 and he was on the cover of USA Today on December 20, 1984."Brown may be 'Hottest' Campus", by Erik Brady; published in USA Today, on 1984-12-20.
== Career ==
From 1985 until 1994, he worked in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Los Angeles, designing new editing equipment and editing feature films and television shows. He has a number of credited editorial roles in TV and film -- including Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky. Rubin has taught video post-production internationally and has written books on editing for professionals and consumers.
He created AFI's first academic online course for Fathom, a joint venture including Columbia University and the AFI, "Introduction to Digital Video" in 2001 From 1993-2008 he was CEO of Petroglyph Ceramic Lounge, pioneering the contemporary ceramics industry,"Somewhat Individual", by Juliette Rossant; published in Forbes, on 1996-03-11 opening six studios in Northern California."Entrepreneur Award Finalist Michael Rubin", by Alastair Goldfisher; published in Silicon Valley Business Journal, on 1997-05-01 From 2005-2017, he held senior product positions at tech companies and other startups. He was Director of Product at Netflix from 2006-2008 and Senior Innovator at Adobe from 2013-2017 where he was awarded a patent on digital audio interfaces in 2017 . He founded Neomodern in 2017, a bricks-and-mortar photographic printing + framing business in San Francisco, which closed in 2020. He currently is a fine art photographer, and teaches photography workshops, notably with the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
== Publications ==
Rubin wrote, Defending the Galaxy in 1982, the first comprehensive book and satire on video games. for which he was given a Twin Galaxies Videogame trading card #1603 in 2013. In 1984, he wrote and published the humorous Computer Gardening Made Simple under the pen name Chip DeJardin. In 1990, he wrote the first edition of Nonlinear, which popularized the term “nonlinear editing” and was used in film schools and in Hollywood, and released three additional editions until 2001. He wrote The Little Digital Video Book for amateur videographers in 2001; the book's second edition came out in 2008. He also wrote three editions of iLife books for the Apple Training Series. In 2005 he authored Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution."Writing the Revolution", by Wallace Baine; published in Santa Cruz Sentinel, on 2005-10-16
== Photography ==
Rubin is the director of The Rubin Collection, a large family collection of 20th-century photography, frequently on display at Neomodern in San Francisco (2017-2020) and now in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As a high school student, Rubin was taught by Jerry N. Uelsmann in the darkroom and photographic effects in Gainesville, Florida .
== Personal Life ==
Rubin married his Petroglyph co-founder Jennifer (Kurtz) Rubin in 1994 (divorced in 2013) with whom he shares two children. His siblings are artist Gabrielle Rubin-Israelievitch and screenwriter Danny Rubin .
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