Who am
I?
"I am not young enough
to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde
… and not old enough to have forgotten
everything either. I live somewhere between those
stages, in the foggy realm of adulthood.
 Name: Fredrik Malcus
Birth: March 24, 1963 or in environment aware units 319 ppm (you can probably figure out my
age...)
Living where: Dalby, Sweden.
Work: Novo Nordisk A/S.
Internet-mail: fredrik <replace with the at sign> malcus.com
WWW-Home: Right
here!!!
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What's
my story?
Here's
some sort of a CV.
- Started studying at
Lund University and for one year I tested chemistry,
physics, electronics and FORTRAN programming on
VAX 11/780... finally settled on:
- Chemistry studies at
Lund University paralleled with part-time work at
Sydgas (later Sydkraft, now EON) (purity analysis of natural gas
(on a HP5880
gas chromatograph) and computer consultant)) added
studies in every chemistry-related computer item I
could find... Final exam work on using PC's and
Fourier signal smoothing to enhance detection limits
in glucose analysis using modified
electrodes.
- Computer consultant
at a small IDEON
based consultancy named Syscon working for Sydgas, built
preventive maintenance logging systems based on Quick
Basic, Excel macros and PSION Organizer's OPL;
featuring hand-held field sampling, serial
communication, in-house developed databases and
report generation. Also helped customers with PC -
remote control and file transfers.
-
PhD-studies in Analytical
Chemistry; subject: on-line trace metal
enrichment and speciation coupled with graphite
furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy using
8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ), controlled pore glass
(CPG), flow-injection analysis (FIA), Varian AA-1475,
GTA-95, IEEE-488 communication, AD-converters,
PC-control and Pascal programming. Naturally this
turned into pure automation - programming and I ended
not as PhD but computer nerd. In the end I held
lectures and practices on instrument control using
PC's and Visual Basic programming for serial
communication with instruments.
- Short episode of
Windows/Delphi
programming work, mostly adaptations and
modernisation of instrument control programs for
Reologica (now Malvern Instruments) rheological
instruments.
- Two years of IS/GALP
work at Pharmacia
& Upjohn now McNiel. What it means? Information Systems
/ Good Automated Laboratory Practice (PDA
... but don't forget GAMP) this meant
contacts with FDA
about computer validation, Riksarkivet on electronic
long-time storage and a load of other issues you get
when you cross a modern pharmaceutical analytical
laboratory with computers.
- Ten years of LIMS project manager at Softwarepoint.
Project manager and programmer for customer
adaptations of the Wilab LIMS
system.
- Five years working as senior consultant at Plantvision
implementing the SampleManager LIMS
system at all manner of companies.
- Three years working as Laboratory Systems Specialist at ALK supporting,
improving and implementing laboratory information systems (mostly but not limited to
SampleManager LIMS).
- Latest adventure, working as IT manager / administrator in the computer team of the technical support group at Novo Nordisk OFP site Målöv,
primarily responsible for the in-house IT systems and IT activities of the QC lab. Yep, going back to the lab and supporting the users through the whole value-chain of a modern quality control laboratory.
What do you get with all
this? A cross-breed of a technically oriented
analytical chemist and a computer nerd. I believe it's
a viable breed and life has been good.
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What
would I like to do?
I would like to work
with analytical chemistry, automation of analytical
procedures and computerization of analytical
chemistry.
I have some strange
ideas of writing up articles and lighter thesis work
and I will, as soon as I get some time (I have actually
done some
work...)...
And I
would like to:
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