Meet the founder of Useful Knowledge
Alan J. Rubin, M.B.A.
Alan Rubin has been a dial-tone junkie for over 25 years. His career in telecommunications began with the Bell System in sales and marketing, where he ranked in the top 5% consistently. He moved onward and upward into technical support for other sales folk, and finally landed the fun job at AT&T, managing the "Network of the Future" showcase in San Francisco. The showcase highlighted some of the forward-looking work at Bell Laboratories, and involved both demonstration and explanation of how telecommunications technologies were evolving. Moving from AT&T, Alan joined Telecommunications Research Associates, the leading professional education firm in telecommunications technology. Serving as Director of Custom Learning Solutions, Alan had the responsibility for custom curriculum design for major clients, designing and delivering custom courses and curricula for numerous clients including Motorola, Lucent, AT&T, Nortel Networks, SBC, BellSouth, Verizon, Qwest, Cisco, Deloitte & Touche, ABN-Amro Bank, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, and many others involved in the telecommunications industry.
Alan created Useful Knowledge, LLC, over five years ago, because he sees a pervasive need to bridge the knowledge gap between those who engineer telecommunications technology and those who have to sell it, buy it, use it, regulate it, or legislate about it. Alan sees the job of Useful Knowledge, LLC, as a translation service between the technical world and the user community.
Alan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Information Theory with honors from the University of Colorado, and a Masters of Business Administration degree with honors from the University of Phoenix. He's also served as an adjunct lecturer of Marketing for Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Today, Alan resides in the Rocky Mountains of his native state, Colorado, where he enjoys life with his wife, Cheri, and daughter Francesca, who thinks he's pretty funny.
