Jon Rubin has worked for the athletic department at Florida since August 2004, just a few months after he graduated with a B.S. in Telecommunications (Production) from the university. In his role as Assistant Director of Electronic Media, he oversees the development and distribution of live and on-demand video content for the program’s official website, GatorZone.com; helps manage various other content for GatorZone.com and the school’s social networking presence on the Web; produces the weekly highlight show for men’s basketball head coach Billy Donovan, which airs on several regional cable networks in the southeast; helps handle footage requests for network partners and production companies; and helps with the always-popular “other duties as assigned.”
Since its implementation by the conference in 2005, Jon has also served as the SEC Instant Replay Technician for all Florida football home games, as well as the Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville in each of those seasons. As part of his work for the SEC, Jon also served as the Replay Technician at the 2006 Fiesta Bowl and 2007 Orange Bowl games.
Jon was born in Columbus, Ohio, moved to Boca Raton, Florida in 1989, and has been a resident of Gainesville since the fall of 2000.