Rivershark Inc

Keeping the company funded, staffed and serviced.

Senior Vice President of Product Development

Cox Media Group

Gerard McLean joined the NIE Department at the Dayton Daily News in 1998 when newspapers were just considering the transition to digital spaces. In addition to revamping the workflow of the various ediucational products for K-12 including a bi-weekly page targeted to the Ohio Proficiency Test, he was responsible for bringing the department and all its content online, building a community and maintaining outreach with educators and students. His contributions over the 4 1/2 yrs at the DDN included various original editorial on a variety of topics from the environment to pizza, in additional to external and internal marketing that promoted the editorial-focused NIE of the DDN. His signature contribution to the DDN was piloting the fledgling daytondailynews.com through Sept 11, 2001.

- Successful implementation of a materials design and production workflow for a Newspapers In Education department.
- Create graphics and support materials to illustrate and facilitate understanding of original reporting by education specialists
- Write, copyedit and develop curriculum-based reporting for NIE pages

Newspapers in Education

SPAR Group

Develop and support programs that integrated technology and human resources for a field-based IC labor force as well as all general staffing needs for the main office.

VP, HR/Technology

Huffy

Create training programs that increased the efficiency and quality of a field-based, decentralized employee workforce.

Training Manager

Target

Sporting goods, Stock Team Supervisor, Housewares, Mensware/Shoes/Luggage/Boys

Area Specialist

If you're doing it right, somebody is talking about you and your company right now on a social network you probably haven't heard about yet. You need a guide. Hire me.

https://rivershark.com

Go there. Have a look around. Drop us a line. We’ll get stuff done.

What?! You want to know more? 

I like you already as you are not one to be content hanging out on the shore, peering at the ocean. You want to dive in, feel the cold splash of life on your skin as your face cranes toward the warmth of the sun. 

Here’s stuff about me. If I’m the kind of person you think would be fun business, then we really should be talking.

This profile space has been left intentionally blank as I ponder a re-write, re-brand and re-launch from the ground up. I promise it will be pithy, almost truthful and mostly, memorable.

You are invited to be connected to me via the LinkedIn algorithms by following me (I don't know how you do that) or requesting a connection (I DO know how you do that!) Every request will be scrutinized thoroughly for the tracking code IFIWEREARICHMAN and the hashtag #TeamYellowPeanutMM to determine your sanity in wanting this dubious honor. No generic requests will be granted; you must personalize the message .... the selection process will be brutal.

You still want more? Are you kidding right now? What do you think I do all day, poop out words? 

Ok, I do kinda do that... sometimes I can even control which end they come out, though there is no guarantee. No, I will not make a car video or a parody of a client call video. I know, I know, they are all the rage but you probably guessed by now that I roll just a little bit to the left and uphill.

Hey, you asked ... Oh, what's that? You DIDN'T ask? Well, now you know. TMI is my game and I know I have already gone on one sentence longer than you can tolerate. Yet, you kept reading. Who is the crazy one now?

Who stole my Wite-out? Just bring it back, no questions asked.

Hey, if you got this far, condolences... but also here is my original headline before LinkedIn decided that 4 characters was enough for everyone... they are wrong, right? 

Author, Copywriter, Word Slinger, Digital Hobo, Roustabout, Publisher. I also CEO at Rivershark Inc and TourneyCentral in my spare time.

In case you are wondering, the hair in my profile photo is the best it is ever going to look. If you want to know more about my hair, I suggest you buy my book, Monkey with a Loaded Typewriter on Amazon. Just do it... go there now... really, wallet out; I need coffee and a haircut.

Gerard McLean

Meta Eight Ltd

METAeight is my vehicle for helping companies with Epicor ERP10/Kinetic, getting data straight and talking sense about IT systems to people who've had enough of being bamboozled.

Business Systems Consultant / Developer

Fixfast Ltd

Heading the Business Systems department at Fixfast, which was created to manage and continually improve the IT tools and processes used by the Fixfast team.

Business Systems Manager

Business Systems Developer

Fixfast

Responsible for calculations, analysis, company software tools, technical development.

Technical Consultant

Fixfast is a supplier of fasteners and accessories for industrial construction. My main responsibilities are for imports, QC, R&D and technical, process management, with Health & Safety and IT also under my overview.

Operations Manager

On LinkedIn, I talk about whatever happens to interest me.

For business, it’s all Epicor ERPs, from ERP9 to Kinetic. I don’t talk about that so much in my posts, so here are the facts.

We are a tiny independent consultancy with deep technical experience of Epicor Kinetic and earlier versions, helping businesses get their ERP working in the ways they need.

We aren’t an Epicor partner, and not big enough to do your implementation for you. I’m not interested in selling you an Epicor solution, or convincing you which ERP you should pick. I don’t have best practices for you, or an army of specialists, sales people or project managers.

Get in touch if you use an Epicor system, or have already decided to implement one, and want direct flexible help. That’s what we do. What I do.

That might be a specific project, such as automating a time-sapping task or integrating with other software, or exposing data where it’s needed. Maybe you don’t have quite that expertise in-house, or you simply don’t have time. Either way, I can do that for you, and leave you with something that your staff do understand and can use.

It might be as part of your implementation process, when you find that the expert team handling it have a gap between their expertise and processes, and your more free-wheeling approach, and want someone who can … just do things … but without upsetting anyone or adding complication.

It might be that you want back-up on a retainer basis, so your staff can concentrate on the business, and pass on the donkey-work of routine tweaks and updates to someone who can do them quickly and cleanly.

You may want SSRS documents that actually look like someone designed them professionally.

What I find is that ERP work, being so closely entwined with the workings of a business, is as much psychological as technical. It works best when it’s human, and not when the people of the business are forced into an ERP-shaped mould. So when you work with me, you talk to the same person about what you need as who will provide it. I know enough about Epicor systems to be able to advise what will work with the grain of the system and do what users want and need, and make it happen.

We also have native Chinese language expertise, if you need it.

If that sounds like it might be useful – our website has more, or you can call me, email me, or send me a message on here.

Everybody else (which I realise is most people), carry on, and feel free to discuss any old thing in the comments.

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