/srg/ - Shadowrun General

If you let him play a technomancer, it will be shit for everyone involved.

Seriously. Don't let a newbie anywhere near the Matrix rules, especially someone who hasn't played a single RPG before.

I sent a brainwashed ex-red samurai, who owes me a life debt, on a mission to assassinate the Prime Minister of Jamaica as a suicide mission to get rid of him, so that our hacker would come back.
The hacker left the team because the ex sammy was involved in his sisters murder, she was an unexpected casualty in another hit I made him go on for my personal gain. The hacker is unaware that this is because of me, and as the party face, I intend to lie my ass off to cover up my tracks.

Oh, and the owner of a club that rivals my own just disposed of his right hand man and has hired me to fill his shoes, signing over my club to him in the process. As the party face, I intend to lie my ass off and eventually backstab him, taking both clubs for my own and disposing of him.

We also got word of a convoy being sent to Chicago by some radical magical group, my hunch is something buggy. We've been hired to assist in making sure it gets there safely, the whole team is feeling uneasy about it.
As the party face, I intend to lie my ass off and find some way to profit huge off of this so I can retire.

You could use generic mooks from the core books instead of the printed stats in the modules, that would be easy.
The Matrix, on the other hand, might be a bit of a hassle to convert, depending on how you want to run the adventure (playing the old Modules in 207x or playing 2050s SR with 5e rules).
If you plan on playing 2050s SR with 5e:
The HongKong Sourcebook and the GERMAN 2050s Sourcebook have rules for oldstyle Matrixshit converted to 5e Mechanics.

Runners were on a yacht for a New Years' Eve Party. Mr.Johnson was exceptionally vague about the parameters but the job was to play bodyguard. Vampire G-men showed up as the Ball dropped to kill the vibe.

We get around 10 Karma per Run which usually lasts a long session.

Financial rewards depend heavily on how not-stupid we behave and a bit of luck. So far i got a free Ford Americar and our group got the SINs we burned replaced with Lvl 4 ones (licenses included) and around 5-7k Nuyen for the each of the other Runs.
Could have been more if we hadn't been stupid/unlucky a few times, but the GMs generally seem to be more open with giving out gear compared to Nuyen.

What about using 4e with the 2050 sourcebook?

I feel like it would turn him off tabletop roleplaying for ages if he gets all excited to try one, finds a character concept he likes and then I just tell him no.

I'd like him to be able to play a technomancer,
is there any way to ease him into it?

Perfectly viable if you like the feel of 4e.
I personally wouldn't touch it over 5e, but your preferences may differ.

Question on Data Search,
when I do a search on a particular person, trying to find whatever information I can, where is that information coming from?

Does my search bounce from Node to Node until it reaches a Node designated as a public Data Haven, where someone for whatever reason, may have dumped that data I want?

Does this mean that if I was not in mutual signal range of any other device, I could not do a data search?

Meet up with him two hours before the other people and do a small matrix training run, so he gets a feel for how things work.
Also do him, the group and yourself a favor and use the new, reduced, fading values from the errata section of the official forum.