Human Resource Supply Chain

Himanshu Joshi [CSM]

940-***-**** [**********@*****.*** – Houston, TX]

Summary

• Total 21+ years of IT experience. 14+ years in Program, Project and People Management.

• Strong working experience on PMI Knowledge areas [Integration, Scope, Cost, Time, Human Resource, Communications, QA, Risk and Procurement management]

• Execution experience on different domains aka. Stocks, News & Media, Insurance, Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Finance & Banking, Mutual Funds, Retail & Logistics and Mortgage Warranty Supports

• Excellent skills in client relations & business management; Interaction with business partners, subject matter experts, vendors and technology partners in Europe, Middle east, Mexico, United States & India.

• Experienced in Onsite – Offshore delivery models with excellent co-ordination with team, senior management, clients and stake holders.

• Well versed with PMLC / System Development Lifecycle [SDLC] / ITIL processes, methodologies [Waterfall & Agile/Scrum] and validations. Sound knowledge on Finance methodologies and Portfolio management.

• Expertise on Infra Datacenters by managing / coordinating the teams across the continents for successful delivery [Lift & Shift, Migrations, Build, Obsolescence, Expansion Upgrades, Decommission etc].

• Sound knowledge on Supply chain processes by working with different process areas [GTS, Invoice, Revenue, Tax, Field Inventory, IT, Business, Manufacturing, Shipping, Delivery, Credit & Collections, Sales Operations etc.] with Giant vendors on Hyperscale orders.

• Delivered end-to-end solutions for ecommerce, DevOps, Sales force / Intune [Cloud], Data warehouse, Infrastructure, windows, web and mobile based on different technologies.

Skills

• Management:

Process Analysis & Redesign

Management of Cross-Functional Teams

Project & Delivery Methodologies;

Project Tracking,

Change & Configuration Management,

Release & Deployment Management

Change Control Management

Infrastructure Management

Budgeting & Planning

Cost & Resource Estimates

Project Risk & Scope

Contract Administration

Warranty Support

• Technologies:

Net Framework, WF, WPF, WCF, C#.net, ASP.Net, AJAX, VB 6.0, ASP 3.0, SAP

Visual Studio 2008 / 2005 / 2000, TFS, Install Shield

SQL Server, Oracle, ETL, Informatica; SSIS, SSRS, Crystal Reports

• Tools / Utilities: MS-Project, MS-Office 365, MS-Team, MS-Visio, Rally, Clarity, Caliber, HP Quality Control / ALM 12.0, ART tool, JIRA, SharePoint, Power BI, Power Apps, Ariba and Service Now

Current Project Refinitiv, USA / London Stock Exchange Group

IT / Infra Delivery Manager / Scrum Master [News & Media, Datacenters] Jan 2020 to till date

Project(s) Summary: Handled projects / programs of datacenters Lift & Shift, Migrations, Build, Obsolescence, Expansion, Upgrades, Decommission from Kick-off till the closure.

• Managed & delivered 22 data center build projects across the globe [USA, UK, SINGAPORE, JAPAN, CHINA, HONGKONG, INDIA, GERMANY, Canada, Argentina and RUSSIA] by coordinating 125 people in 5 years.

• Managed & delivered H/W Upgrade projects [10G to 40G] across multiple Datacenters of ~13M budget [Capex, Opex, KTLO, forecast, actual] in 2 years.

• Managed Datacenter expansion [Sideways, Full, Failed H/Ws, Configs, Migration] + Directfeed [Datamining, IP workbooks, cable matrix, switch configs, H/W sourcing, site & N/W readiness, Installation & Configs, Testing etc], + Obsolescence [identification of chassis, OS, platforms, firmwares, inventory, servers, VMware, applications, require H/W acquisitions & delivery, implementation & closure ] projects in 3 years

• Managed Decommissions projects [approvals flows, logical decommission or retirements, switches updates on silos, site visits & network stats report, Decom plan agreements, recycling h/ws, schedule etc; Physical decommissions (storage, shipment, decommissions etc), H/W shipment] till datacenter shut-down

• Based on different Bills of materials [Cabinets, Networks, Control nodes, Synergy servers, PURE, F5 load, Cabling etc], coordinated with different Vendors & procurement [TCS, Mphasis, Lumen, Computacenter, HPE, OST,CBRE, Cisco, Cyxtera] by following Order Mgmt on Ariba for Hardware acquision & delivery [Cisco & HPE Kits, Napatec Solarflare cards, Servers (consoles, synergy, EEDs), PPE, Cables (long, short, pps), Switches, Controllers, NIC, Rackmount, blades etc.] by following supply chain & finance processes for [Bidding, quotations, approval flows, purchase requests, purchase orders, GTE & customs calculations, logistics & transportations, delivery, shipments, invoicing, payments etc] in 5 years.

• Coordinated with Service Now teams [to create intake requests, track, update, approvals on H/W installation, Engineers or vendor onsite visits / permissions, VPN Access etc.]

• Coordinated with on Site Surveyors [Foot print doc, Site preparation, power & space & cabling etc readiness, Photos ],

• Worked with Network [LAN, WAN] & IT engineers on different deliverables [LLD, Cable & Connectivity Matrix, Mgmt & Full & Captured Port opening, Data Mining, Static IP / CID, Site parameters, LAN & WAN info sheets, LAN & WAN change design, server profile creations, inventory creations etc] based on Project needs,

• Worked with Infrastructure Design & Architecture teams on different deliverables [HLDs, Cabinet / Rack layouts, Migration schedules & designs, Architectural, Application documents, Up/Down stream maps, NFRs]

• Worked with LSEG Infrastructure & Vendor Build teams on [integration, cage, racking, stacking, power, cabling, cooling, Installation, QSFPs, IP ranges, shipment etc]

• Worked with Configuration Development teams for [NG-Spine, LAN&WAN Templated configs, NMS, Switch Service Configs, F5 Configs (base, VIP, logical), ADS mapping etc) deliverables] based on Project needs

• Coordinated with Application owners / technical SMEs on [VLAN Subnets, Switches, Linux Jump Start, OS Installations, throttling, Gen9/10 qualifications, Handbooks etc] for Application Developments & Installation for [DAS / DCS, CDS, TMS, TS, ARB, ERB, TH, TDN, PCN apps & servers]

• Coordinated with Deployment teams for [Production & Non-Prod, Chassis, VSS, Gold & Windows & Linux Images, Build nodes, Utility boxes] by following project schedules

• Coordinated with Testing teams on testing schedules & sign-offs for [connectivity verification, End to End, Pre-App UAT, Quest, QA, SIT, OAT, Pre Production Environment Testing, CHAT1 & 2 configuration H/W acceptance test, N/W failover testing, VPN connection testing etc]

• Coordinated with Migrations, business & Application teams on [Router interfaces changes, App installations, Post App OATs, QRR, Go/No-Go Decisions, Network cutovers, Postchecks etc]

• Coordinated with PMO, Business stakeholders, vendors, Operations, teams [RACI] on project status reporting [achievements, risks/issues, next steps], Hand-over, trainings, Closures [Lesson learned, Sign-offs] from kick off till delivery.

• Performed Implementation Scrum Master role for Digital Operations work by managing Scrum [ceremonies, Fibonacci estimations, reporting, Cross backlogs pillars etc] with the help of other pillars Scrum masters, Scrum teams, Product owners, Agile coach, Service Integration Manager, Data Analysis teams, Business analysts [Scope, Stories, Epics Opportunities etc] in 2 years span.

• Managed the Risks, vulnerability & Issues [problems, requirements] along with remediation & mitigation plans by following SLAs & Change controls till the resolutions using Jira.

Technologies: Windows, Linux, SharePoint, MSOffice 365 suite, JIRA, MS Project, AWS / Intune Cloud, Ariba [GTS], Service Now, Python, Power Apps

Project#1 BCBSM, Detroit MI / Houston TX, USA

IT Delivery / Agile PM [Healthcare Insurance] Feb 2019 - Dec 2019

Project Summary: Handling multiple Healthcare projects from Kick-off till the production roll-out using BI DW tools.

• Working with the Business, Vendors, Agents, Groups, Corporate Groups, Federal & State Government to understand the scope of the project, type of the data claims [Medical, Membership, Pharmacy, Vision, Dental], frequencies of data feeds, feed layouts etc.

• Working with different systems to determine the standard or custom requirements, analyze the data according the purposes of requests, follow the workflow processes for the approval / rejections of the claims.

• Working with Legal & Governance teams on NDAs between group & BCBSM, BAAs between vendors or agents & groups, Get the SLAs of deliverables

• Working with PMO on the resource assignments, cost, budget, timeline, quality, status updates.

• Managing the deliverables & signoffs on SharePoint on the different phases of PMLC for projects.

Technologies: Oracle, TOAD, Power BI, SharePoint, PPM, MSOffice 365 suite, DevOps model, ETL, .Net, Kanban, JIRA

Project#2 Engie NA, Houston, TX, USA

Sr. Integration Project Manager [Oil, GAS, Energy] Mar 2018 - Feb 2019

Project Summary: Engie NA is in Oil, GAS and energy business and acquiring other wind energy companies. I was responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions from Divestiture Joint Ventured organizations to manage Finance & IT applications acquision, merging and integration with existing Engie infrastructure & Operations.

Business Partners: Engie NA, Engie Paris, Endiem, Accenture, Avanade, VMware, SoCore, Bloomberg etc.

• Coordinating internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.

• Developing project scopes, plans and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility till Cutover completes.

• Responsible of Creation, reviews get the signoffs on MSAs, SOWs, and TSAs etc. Responsible for creation and maintenance of comprehensive project documentation.

• Reporting and escalating to management as needed. Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders. Regular update meetings & coordination on program health status reports with PMO, Client & Stakeholders and Business Process teams.

• Managed Finance integrations of Treasury, Payroll, Reporting & GTS assets while IT integration of infrastructure, Network, Office 365 [including Outlook, SharePoint & OneNote], Sales force [Azure], MS-CRM modules & other interdependent 3rd parties’ business integrations.

Technologies: SharePoint, Office 365 suite, ALM, Maximo, SAP [FI CO MDM GTS], .Net, Terraform & Intune Cloud, SQL Server

Project#3 HPE & DXC, Houston, TX, USA

Sr. Project Manager [Manufacture - Retail, Ecommerce] June 2014 – Mar 2018

Project Summary:

• DMO: Divestiture Management Office [Aug 2016 to Mar 2018 - Mergers & Acquisitions] – The DMO is an HPE program to handle HPE Separations & Acquisitions. HPE again split its one of the portions HPES [HP Enterprise Services] to CSC and acquired Micro focus [Joint Venture] company into HPE. I worked as a Project Manager for IT Centre of Excellence group and handled end to end impacts to the few SAP S4 BW HANA assets on Intune Cloud as part of DMO sub-program. Project Management of SDLC activities along with Enterprise security [AD, ED] for HPE Sales Ops Progressing assets/applications from Planning, Analysis/Design, Construction/Testing to Implementation and Closure.

• SMO: Separation Management Office [Dec 2015 to July 2016 – Separation, Mergers & Acquisitions] – The SMO was a program to split HP Company into HP Enterprise & HP Inc. I have worked as a Project Manager for Finance Architect group and handled end to end impacts to the Finance SAP assets [workday, payroll, FICO, PR, MDM, and Enterprise Security etc.] due to this separation.

• Q2C [Quote to Cash June 2014 to Dec 2015] is a HP program to get the quotation of HP products [Laptop, Desktop] from different customers [Face book, Yahoo, eBay, Symantec, Rackspace, Dropbox, Alibaba etc.] and convert them into Hyper scale orders with the help of SAP [FI CO MDM AP AC MM GTS] supply chain systems on HANA & Sales force platform till the delivery by coordinating with different team(s) & department(s) [Field Inventory, Revenue, Tax, Global Trade, Finance, Sales & Operations, Credit & Collections, Invoice, IT etc.].

Business Partners: HP Mexico, HP USA, HP Japan, HP Global Traders [Europe, UK, Asia], State of California & Texas

• Regular update meetings & coordination on program health status reports with PMO, Sr. Management, Client & Stakeholders and Business Process teams on Programs & Portfolio activities.

• Responsible to drive the production release(s) from Business, IT & Finance perspective by working with other involved teams [3rd parties, maintenance, business testing etc.] across the world.

• Responsible to manage program risks; resource forecasts & actuals; dashboard updates; newsletters updates, project updates & health etc.

Technologies: SharePoint, SAP HANA, MSPS, ALM, Power BI, Office 365 suite, Ariba etc.

Project#4 Met life, Clarks Summit, PA, USA

Program Manager [Healthcare Insurance] Sep 2012 – May 2014

Project Summary: Met life is an insurance company which provides life coverage for health, dental & vision to individual as well Government, Federal & Corporate groups. I was responsible to manage the enhancement of 5 medium size project(s) [CMS, Payment, Customer portal, reporting] from program/project kick-off level till deployment.

Business Partners: MetLife, Cognizant, iGATE, State of PA DE NJ CA, Verizon, Google, Chase bank

• Regular update meetings with PMO, Program LOBs, Client & Stakeholders and team.

• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.

• Responsible to communicate with Business, Client stake holders & Met life teams on multiple Programs & Projects activities.

• Managed & coordinated the Development, change request control, Deployment, Configuration & Resource

• Responsible for team performance assessments and making decisions based on project needs.

Technologies: SharePoint, Java, SQL Server, .Net, Clarity, Caliber, Power BI, MS Office, MS Project, JIRA etc.

Project#5 Toyota Motor Sales, Torrance, CA, USA

Technical Project Manager [Automobile Retail Ecommerce] Apr 2012 – Sep 2012

Project Summary: Toyota has an existing portal called Dealer Daily that is used by its dealers across USA & Mexico for performing day to day operations [i.e. Inventory requisition, Financial tracking, Claim processing etc.]. The current project One Dealer Daily [1DD] is to uplift the existing Dealer Daily site to provide common functionality to all internal users, US & Mexico dealer users and private distributorship of Lexus & Toyota brands, over the internet. The application was built for different devices aka desktop computers, I-Pad and mobiles.

Business Partners: Toyota, Lexus, Cognizant, Deloitte, Infosys, CSC, Sales

• Responsible to communicate with multiple teams [Development, Enterprise architect, security, Functional expertise, existing maintenance, sales] and other stake holders on different activities.

• Prepared & reviewed documents related to Project scope, estimation, risk management, resource loading, work breakdown structure etc.

• Closely worked with Client technology manager and assisted him to manage project tracking activities.

• Coordinated with 3rd party Client vendors to complete QA & UAT.

• Helped Client manager to prepare communication & sign off plans to the deliverables.

Technologies: Java, .Net, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, Active Directory, JIRA etc.

Project#6 AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical, Wilmington, DE, USA

Application Service Manager [Healthcare Pharma] Sep 2010 – Apr 2012

Project Summary: AstraZeneca is having internal applications build for managing information about healthcare professionals such as physicians & pharmacists. The project involves upgrade of 3 Field sales applications [Viewpoint, Touchstone, and Cornerstone].

Business Partners: State of Delaware, AstraZeneca, Cognizant, Ciber, Deloitte and Infosys

• Project Management [Planning, Communication & Coordination, Execution & control, Resource forecasting, invoicing, release management etc.] by following Waterfall methodology.

• Responsible for Change control & management processes [Change control board, workflows, documents etc.]

• Provided Full Life Cycle Analysis Design, Development, Maintenance enhancements and Production Support along with require documentations.

• Periodic status reporting of weekly / monthly metric data of performance to the senior management and project stake holders.

• Responsible for the Development, Deployment, Integration, Release & Change Management [Trainings, Production support with Shadow support, Documentations etc.].

Technologies: .Net, Siebel, Informatica, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, TFS, JIRA etc.

Project#7 Chase Bank, Jersey City, NJ, USA

Project Manager [Finance] Apr 2010 – Sep 2010

Project Summary: The objective of credit card projects [MSR-Mortgage Site Rehost & DCHP-Dynamic Card Home Page] is to redesign & rehost existing mortgage sites in CIG IIS infrastructure to improve the performance.

Business Partners: Chase, MphasiS, Cognizant and Infosys

• Project Management [SDLC, Communication, Coordination, Execution, Resource management, Budgeting]

• Periodic status reporting of weekly / monthly metric data of performance to the senior management and project stake holders. Review business requirement deliverables.

Technologies: .Net, MVC, C#, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, TFS, Informatica, JIRA, etc.

Project#8 Wells Fargo Bank, Tempe, AZ, USA

Project Lead [Finance] Aug 2009 – Apr 2010

Project Summary: With the acquisition of Wachovia Bank by Wells Fargo, opportunities & challenges were presented to meet ongoing trading partner expectations for products & services. This project [TCR-Transmission Conversion Repository] developed to support numerous Deposit Accounts of Wachovia bank channel and product conversions of Wells Fargo bank channel. TCR was a place for both transmission channels to temporarily moving trading partner data between the channels until the Trading Partners can be fully migrated to their appropriate channels.

Business Partners: Wells Fargo, Wachovia, HP, Mphasis and TCS

• Manage Project consists of multiple technologies [.Net, Enterprise Security, Java, Informatica, and SQL Server] and business Assisted to manage budget and overall schedule from the End to End project perspective. Risk identification and management throughout the life cycle of the project. By leveraging the onshore resources of team size 14, seamlessly managed around the clock development support.

• Timely status reporting to senior management and Project stakeholders.

• Managed the changes [enhancements, issues, problems, RCRs] using change control board & ITIL processes and worked with change management team on 24x7 models till the resolutions. Tracked & reporting the changes into JIRA tool.

• Laid out clear process maps for Code Management, Configuration Management and Integration testing.

• Responsible to deliver the project with module integrations by managing ETL & dotnet teams.

• Directed teams to analyze, design high level technical requirements, Low level Module designs, Code the requirements, Testing, Test cases, Module Integrations and Application setup.

• Coordinate SIT, UAT and manage a smooth production rollout.

• Responsible for the Development, Deployment, Integration, Configuration and Release Management

Project#9 Sony Ericsson Corporation, Irvine, CA, USA

Onsite Coordinator [Warranty, Retail, Ecommerce] Mar 2008 – Jul 2009

Project Summary: WCMS is a global web-based application that caters to SEMC’s mobile phone warranty claims processing across the globe. The claims submission is done using both online and batch modes. The user logs into the system to initiate update and process the claims. Most of the submissions, close to 96%, are done in batch mode. Further updates to the claims are done online. Also, the project includes the migration to Dot Net 3.0. The components re-developed in .net and DTS packages converted to SSIS - SQL Server Integration Services. The project handled with the help of team size 5 [Onshore & offshore].

Business Partners: Sony Ericsson, Mphasis, EDS, Cognizant, Toshiba and Lenovo

• Communication with Business & Client stake holders. Single POC for Client & EDS stack holders.

• Prepare weekly, monthly & yearly metric data of performance and provide status updates to client & senior management.

• Mentor the team for system maintenance and enhancement of WCMS (Warranty Claim Management System).

• As a Team Lead, conduct code reviews for the team members and prepares quality documents for the quality assurance audit.

• Responsible for code review, module estimations & integration, implementation and deliverables.

Project#10 Deutsche Bank, Bangalore, India

Module Lead [Finance] Jan 2007 – Mar 2008

Project Summary: The project - CTS [Client Transition System] is a workflow-based project which provides the services to the client & document management system; it is a golden source for client information. It meets the growing needs of the business and will serve as a centralized source of information for both Deutsche Bank users involved in the client transition process, as well as other areas of the bank that wish to view a client’s status within the transition process, view the products available for a client to trade, and access other static data that will be maintained with the system. The total team size was 20 [onshore & offshore] and I was module lead of 3 developers.

• Business requirements discussions & coordination with Onshore lead.

• Responsible to prepare documents i.e. low-level design, test cases, release notes, Implementation manuals etc.

• Mentor team for analyze, design, code, unit test the requirements and helped onshore in module integrations & implementations.

• Created database level mappings to manage workflow details in SQL Server and actual data in Oracle.

Project#11 Reuters UK, Bangalore, India

Module Lead [Media, Marketing, News] May 2006 – Jan 2007

Project Summary: Reuters, U.K. is one of the leading NEWS business agents in the world. They sell all types of news including Sports, Entertainment, Stocks, Politics, etc., for all the news & media. The CEMP [Cross-Editorial Metadata Platform - SSIS, SQL Server 2005, C#.net] project aims to provide a strategic cross-editorial metadata platform that can centrally serve the metadata needs of news production systems and enable them to adopt new and more granular coding schemes. The total team size was 13[offshore] and I was module lead of 2 developers.

• Developed the components includes mapping rules (to segregate the news contents and the type of the entities that fall in the business category) in the referential database. The components accept the mapping rules in the XML format and update the referential database.

• Utilized the Install shield 12 Professional tool and provided a customize solutions components.

• Prepared documents i.e. Low & High-level designs; Test cases; Installation, User and Database guides; Installation Checklist. Mentor team to design, coding, and unit testing the requirements.

Project #12 [Richer Components] BOSSdev, Hyderabad, India

Senior Developer [Component seller] Jul 2005 – Apr 2006

Project Summary: Richer Components project was an ongoing development of software components for the ASP.Net platform. Richer Components clients include: AT&T, Electronic Arts, Ford Motor, GiaxoSmithKline, HP, Honeywell, Intel, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Motorola, NASDAQ, Nestle, NFL, Peoplesoft, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, P&G, Reuters, Sears Roebuck, Sony, Tower Records, Unilever, Universal Music, Verizon and Wells Fargo. Team size was 8. Technologies were ASP.Net, C# and SQL Server 2000.

• Responsible to design, develop & test the custom .net components.

• Participating in technical component discussions with team & client.

Project #13 [Karvy MF] Karvy Computershare, Hyderabad, India

Developer [Finance Mutual Fund] Oct 2004 – Jul 2005

Project Summary: The application for Investors, Distributors and AMCs, is providing information about all the funds like BOB, UTI, Taurus, JM Finance, Reliance, Deutsche and LIC etc. The project was technology migration from classic ASP 3.0 to ASP.net. This Application aims to act as an additional channel to facilitate Investors, to carry our commercial and non-commercial transactions. The primary purpose of the Investor module is to provide online access to the Investors to carry out transactions such as New Purchases, Additional Purchases, Switch the Reliance mutual funds from one scheme to other, redeem units etc. supported by various transactions details available. Team size was 4 and technologies were ASP 3.0, ASP.Net, C#, COM, SQL Server 2000, Sybase and Active Reports.

Business Partners: Karvy, Bank of Baroda, Axis, Deutsche, Reliance and UCO banks etc.

• Developed the Project as a Team Member.

• Prepared the technology plans for COM components migrations. Re-design & develop the COM components in C#.net. Responsible to redesign & redevelop a part of the project

Project #14 [VEMS, SPS] Reliance Industry Ltd, Jamnagar, India

Developer [Oil, GAS, Energy] May 1997 – Mar 1999

Project Summary: VEMS - [Visitor Entry Management System - Security System] involves the following modules for simulation of the process. Gate Security, Vehicle Security, Visitor Security, Performed Queries and Report as per requirements.

SPS - [Site Progress System] was the maintenance of the product which was developed by the Bechtel Company. It was generated weekly, quarterly, monthly & yearly plant / site progress reports for 15 units (i.e. Marine Tank Farm - MTF, Refinery Tank Farm - RTF, Poly propylene - PP, Document Controls - DCC and Project Controls etc.). Team size was 4 and technologies were VB 6.0, Microsoft Access 7.0, Crystal Reports & Primavera Project Planning – P3.

Business Partners: Reliance, Bonace, Bechtel France etc.

• Developed the enhancements & supported Project as a Team Member. Coding and Designing the front end.

Certifications

• Certified Scrum fundamentals + Master from Scrum Study, USA

• ASP.Net Certificate from Peers Technologies, Hyderabad, India

• Diploma in Computer Programming & Application from TULEC, Tata InfoTech, Gujarat, India

Trainings

• Got PMP & ITIL trainings from Cognizant Technology Solutions @Wilmington, DE, USA

• Got Finance Portfolio + Supplychain trainings from HP @Houston, TX, USA

Educations

• Masters of Computer Application (MCA - 2003) from IGNO University – India

• Post Graduate Diploma in Advance Computing Application (PGDACA - 2000) from Saurashtra Uni – India

• Bachelors in Science - Mathematics (B.Sc. - 1998) from Saurashtra University – India

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