Professional Summary
Russell McMahon has been teaching IT related subject matter since 1980 and has been a faculty member in the School of Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati since 1999. In 2014, he spent 6 months working at three universities in three different countries (Rwanda, Kenya, and South Africa) in Africa doing IT curriculum development and giving talks on creative problem solving. In the past 2 years, he has given workshops on improvisation for scientist and technologist to enhance their communication and teamwork skills. He spoke at the 2018 eLearning Africa conference held in Kigali and he was a keynote speaker at the 2019 Congreso Internacional de Ingeneria de Systems (CIIS) in Lima, Peru. In February-2019 served as a Fulbright Specialist at Miras University in Shymkent, Kazakhstan where he worked with the computing faculty to help with their technical English and teaching. In 2022, he traveled to Uzbekistan to work at a local university.
He currently serves as the national treasurer/secretary for the ACM SIG in IT Education and as a commissioner with the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET which is the international accrediting organization for engineering, technology, computing, and natural science.
Technologies that I have learned since my foray into computing:
BASIC Programming Language Versions: BASICA, GW-BASIC, TRS-80 BASIC, AppleSoft BASIC, North Star BASIC, PET-BASIC, Visual BASIC.latin (versions 3-6), Visual BASIC.NET
Progamming Languages: PL1, FORTRAN, COBOL, JAVA, C, C++, C#, R, IBM-360 Assembler, 6502-Assembler, 80386-Assembler, JCL, EasyTrieve Plus, Data-Xpert, BMS/GT, ICU, LOGO, Pascal, Prolog, HTML, CSS, QMF, MDX, DMX, SAS, SAS-Graph, Mantis
Office Related: MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Lotus, Paradox, WordPerfect, DisplayWrite, CorelDraw, NotePad++, Open Office
OS-Related: ISPF, ROSCOE (Remote Operating System Conversational On-Line Environment), ROS-Procs, RPF, CICS, CMS, VAX, North Star NSDOS, Apple-DOS, MS-DOS, CP/M, Novell Netware, PowerShell, Linux
SQL Server Services: SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Cincom Software Tools: TOTAL Database, TIS Database, SUPRA-v1 Database (non-SQL based) which used a query language called Spectra, SUPRA-v2 Database (SQL-based), Mantis programming language
Other DBs besides those I learned at Cincom: Oracle, DB2, MS-Access, MongoDB
Current Tech That I Teach: PowerBI (DAX, M-Language), KNIME, Alation, Python, MongoDB, JSON, SQL Server (started with v6.5), T-SQL, Excel, NotePad++
Positions and Work Experience
- Associate Professor, Information Technology, University of Cincinnati, 341B TC
Research Support
Investigators:McMahon, Russell; Ozer, Mustafa 02-01-2023 -01-31-2024 American Councils for International Education American Councils Central Asia University (UniCEN) US-Kazakhstan University Partnerships grant Role:PI 24000.00 Hold Level:Non Profit
Publications
Book Chapter
(2018 ) A Brief History of Computing at the University of Cincinnati From the Temple of Zeus to the Hyperloop .University of Cincinnati Press
Presentations
Invited Presentations
Russ McMahon (9/3/2012 12:00:00 AM. ) Database Security .Cincinnati ISACA Chapter Meeting, Cincinnati. Level:Local
Russell McMahon (09-05-2019. ) Improvisation for All .University of Lima, Lima, Peru. Conference. . Level:International
Russell McMahon (03-23-2020. ) Applied Improvisation and the Creative Problem-Solving Process .virtual, Macau, China. Workshop. . Level:International
Russell McMahon (06-23-2020. ) An examination of IT-related meetups on Meetup.com .virtual, Cincinnati, Ohio. Professional Meeting. . Level:Local
Russell McMahon (08-09-2019. ) Teaching Improvisation at Miras University, Kazahkstan .Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York. Conference. . Level:National
Russell McMahon (09-26-2018. ) Improv for Team Development .Kigali Conference Center, Kilgali, Rwanda. Conference. . Level:International
Courses Taught
-IT-2060C DATABASE MGT I Level:Undergraduate
Faculty Development Activities
09-2013 -04-2014 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Workshop on doing research in teaching, UC UC Type:Workshop
Other Information
FIFTY YEARS OF COMPUTING AT UC CONFERENCE AND RECOGNITION
50 Years of Computing at UC Recognition and Exhibit, June 4, 2008; organized a conference to 2-day conference recognizing UC’s first 50 years of computing on November 10-11, 2008. I was the organizer of this conference and chair of the planning committee.,