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Danté P. Bell
1434 Lewis Drive
Lakewood, OH 44107
216.244.3049 (Mobile)
CAREER SUMMARY:
Experienced in IT management, architecture, engineering, administration and development in the financial, medical, telecommunications, manufacturing, marketing, e-commerce, automotive, and aerospace sectors.
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High Availability Engineering (Clusters, Volume Management, Server Deployment)
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Infrastructure Solutions Architecture – Database, Network, Server and Storage
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ITIL Evaluation and Implementation
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PRINCE2 Certified Practitioner with Comprehensive Project Management Experience in IT and Other Verticals
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Enterprise Infrastructure Experience with Sun Solaris 9 and 10 (Sun Badged Consultant), RedHat Enterprise 5u3, Ubuntu Linux 9.4 and 9.10, and HP-UX 11.23 on IA SuperDome
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HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby and MySQL Website Development and hosting
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Open Software Advocate – Ubuntu Business Partner
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Director Level Manager experience for International Corporations
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Cocoa.Net, Inc., Lakewood, OH 2002-Present
Senior Solaris and Linux Consultant
Responsible for architecture, configuration and maintenance of Cocoa.Net web site and all Cocoa.Net computers. All servers and laptops are running Ubuntu Linux 9.04 on Intel and AMD 64-bit Processors. Storage is managed with Linux LVM2 Logical Volume Manager. Web and mail servers are built utilizing all Open Source software for the Operating System and Applications. Web and mail servers run the Open Source Web Control Panel software, ISPConfig 3 to accomplish hosting of multiple domains, using SSL, TLS and SSH secure connections. E-mail hosting is secured by IMAP-SSL and POP-SSL access. Application software for all hosted domains includes WordPress blog software, Gallery2 Picture and Video hosting and management, Jinzora2 for Audio Storage, streaming and management.
Databases installed and configured for Web Applications include MySQL and Postgres SQL. Web sites are built to W3C HTML and CSS standards and all pages are required to pass authentication to these standards. I am also responsible for developing techniques for Search Engine Optimization using Google's web administration tool kits for analysis, indexing and searching in order to optimize and monetize the websites that are hosted on Cocoa..Net's computers.
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH 2007-Present
Senior Unix Administrator – Technical Lead
Responsible for architecture and deployment of Sun Solaris and RedHat Enterprise Linux servers. Responsible for determining software packages for installation and configuration for all Solaris and Linux servers throughout the corporation, world-wide. Interface with other administrators located in India, Brazil, Scotland and numerous North America locations to support Corporate IT Functions and Plant Management and Product Development world wide.
Deployment of Sun Solaris servers includes Solaris 10 software with up to 4 local zones (virtual machines) for use in the Corporate Web Farm where we employ Sun T-1000 servers. Currently investigating use of Solaris LDOM's in the Corporate Web Farm. These servers run Sun JES Directory, Portal and Web Server products as well as in-house customized versions of Apache2 and JBOSS application servers. Responsible for assisting our web team with configuration and tuning of all Solaris JES products, including Portal, LDAP/Directory and Web servers. Deployment of Sun servers is built upon the Sun Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit, which accomplishes version control by utilizing the SVN repository for each server's configuration templates. Sun's Security Toolkit is utilized to customize all server's security profiles with particular emphasis on servers located in corporate DMZ. Responsible for performance analysis with all Sun Solaris servers, running Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. Sun hardware utilized is the T-1000 for all new servers, we also have Sun 240/245 servers as well as many older models.
Solaris Server clustering is accomplished using Veritas Cluster Server. We have a small number of VCS clusters that I'm responsible for building, maintaining and patching. These clusters are “local” fail-over clusters for NFS, Oracle 10g and earlier versions of Oracle, and a couple of in-house developed applications that require high availability.
Storage is implemented on EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage arrays. Volume management for SAN Storage utilizes Veritas Volume Manager, which manages the R1/R2, BCV and on-line storage. Local storage is managed using Solaris Volume Manager for mirroring and slicing of local/internal hard drives.
Our RedHat Linux strategy is to utilize HP Intel Servers up to 4 sockets. I am responsible for managing the KickStart environment which is utilized to build all of our RedHat servers. Most of these servers are utilized for Application Servers for Oracle Financials (ERP) application tier services.
I am also responsible for performance analysis, recovery and maintenance of all RedHat Servers throughout the corporation. Volume management is accomplished by Linux Logical Volume Management for local and SAN storage allocation and maintenance. I am currently investigating the feasibility of utilizing Linux ZEN virtualization technologies along with evaluation of VMWare enterprise tools.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., Contractor to Sun Professional Services 2002-2007
The following projects were executed as a contracting resource to either Sun Professional Services or on of Sun's Tier 1 partners. Customers included GE Medical, GE Consumer Products, Chicago Water Department, Wayne State University, The State of Ohio, 21st Century Fox, Bell Canada, Province of Nova Scotia, NCR, Perot Systems, Tellus, Nortel, HP Canada for General Motors Corporation, The Veterans Administration, CSC/Textron, Chicago Tribune, Chrysler Corporation, Raymond James, University Hospitals of Cleveland, State of Tennesee and others.
IT Infrastructure Engineer – Technical Lead
Responsible for working with end users to migrate 2 existing Sun Clusters running Solaris 9 and Sun Cluster 3.1u3 to Solaris 10 and Sun Cluster 3.1u1. This upgrade involved recreating and migrating existing Sun Cluster Resource Groups from one cluster to the second cluster to free up the first cluster for new resources. New resource groups for 3 Oracle 10g instances were then created on the first cluster.
Upgrade was accomplished using Solaris Live Upgrade product. The upgrade was 2 phased, with the first phase to upgrade the Solaris Operating System to Solaris 10. A second upgrade was performed to upgrade the Sun Cluster version since the newer version of Sun Cluster was not upgradeable in it's current state. Worked with customer's DBA's to verify that the new cluster resources worked properly and failed over in a consistent manner.
Responsible for building Solaris 10 operating systems on multiple e25k domains, multiple e2900's and multiple T-2000 servers. Responsible for installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 on all servers. Responsible for architecture and implementation of Sun's Solaris Toolkit on every server. Responsible for network configuration on multiple sub-nets utilizing probe based IPMP on all Solaris 10 servers.
High Availability Engineer – Veritas Cluster Implementation
Responsible for architecture and implementation of a two node Veritas Cluster running on two Sun Fire Enterprise 25K servers. Responsible for creating and implementing VCS network and storage resource groups. Responsible for architecture, configuration and implementation of Solaris 10 SPARC operating systems on both VCS nodes. Responsible for developing architectural requirements for configuration of system controllers on both Sun Fire E25K Frames. The application is the back end database for an implementation of Oracle ERP.
Responsible for developing enterprise Jumpstart solution for all customer data centers. This solution is based on Sun's Security Services Model and incorporates implementation of security models, customer application installation, patch management. This solution is built upon Sun's JET framework.
Responsible for architecture, configuration and implementation of a 2+1 Veritas Cluster of Sun Fire E2900 Solaris 10 servers. This implementation consists of a server running iReflect's Data Mirror and one server running Oracle Demand Planning, plus one fail over node.
Storage for all of these projects is on EMC Symmetrics 3000 arrays, with redundant SAN fabrics. Operating systems utilize EMC PowerPath for multiplexing and multipathing to shared storage for all of the cluster nodes. Veritas Volume Manager is utilized along with Veritas File System, with Veritas DMP disabled.
Responsible for setting up servers in a POC/Lab environment. These servers are Sun Fire v210's , E440, T-1000's and T-2000's. All servers run multiple Solaris 10 Zones/Containers so that the configurations can be utilized more efficiently. Solaris Provisioning tools are to be installed for management of these servers.
IT Infrastructure Engineer Open Systems System Administration
Responsible for system administration tasks on Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Redhat Enterprise Linux servers for a large financial concern. Assisted DBA's, developers and systems architects with implementation, and release management of large scale Internet and Intranet servers and associated middle ware. Assisted DBA's with performance tuning and configuration of DB2, Sybase and MySQL database engines on these servers. Administered Highly Available web services applications, web servers, Net Connect, FTP, Secure FTP, NFS, Web and application servers using Veritas Cluster and Veritas Volume Manager. Assisted with Change, and Release Management functions within the Open Systems group.
Project Manager Solaris 10 Farm Implementation
Responsible for day-to-day management of a large Solaris 10 implementation and migration project. Duties included risk identification and mediation, identification and resourcing of technical personnel, prioritize applications to be candidates to move onto the Solaris 10 farm, identification and selection of hardware for the Solaris 10 farm, and institution of release management process and procedures for the life of the project.
IT Infrastructure Engineer ITIL Gap Analysis
Conducted an ITIL Gap Analysis as part of a Sun Preventive Service engagement for a large, West Coast based, media company, that is implementing a “shared services” model of IT support for its business units. This engagement involved interviewing personnel from the IT organization's Help Desk, Facilities Management, Change Control, Release Management, Asset Management and Service Level Management. Reported on gaps that were detected between the actual processes and procedures that are in place and the best practice process and procedures from the ITIL templates. Specified high level gap remediation and reported all findings to the CTO.
IT Infrastructure Engineer Sun Cluster 3.1u4 Solaris 9/10 SPARC and x86
Installed and configured Sun Cluster 3.1u4 on two, two node Sun Fire v210 clusters. These clusters were to become part of Nortel's Infrastructure Network Administration Servers. Services clustered include MySQL, Sun JES Application Server, Sun JES Provisioning Server and Nortel's custom network administration applications. Clusters were installed on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 in both SPARC and x86 architectures. Also responsible for architecture and implementation of Solaris JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit, SUNWjet, in order to provision the first node of each cluster from a bootable DVD then automatically have Sun JES Provisioning Server startup and provision the adjacent cluster node, then provision or update any network devices that require new software components. These include Solaris SPARC and x86, RedHat IES x86, and MS Windows network devices.
IT Infrastructure Engineer Oracle Financials v11 Performance Analysis
Reviewed current architecture of an implementation of Oracle Financials v11 for CSC/Textron. Analyzed performance using the Sun SWAT internal tool set and Sun VTS for loading and monitoring hardware. Reviewed configuration of HDS 9980 SAN storage for the Oracle Financials applications. Provided reports to the customer detailing recommendations for enhanced performance of their Sun Fire v880 servers and the HDS 9980 storage.
Project Manager / Storage Migration and Web Infrastructure projects
Responsible for managing resources, time-lines, expectations and technologies for a storage migration project. This project involved moving Oracle Financials databases from non-supported Sun storage to an Hitachi HDS 9980. Responsible for setting customer expectations for completion of project. Managed escalations when it was discovered that the storage was not initially configured correctly upon delivery. Developed Project Plans and managed resources to these plans. Responsible for tracking budget to actual, and for communications of all project status to the customer and to Sun internal organizations.
Responsible for managing resources, time-lines, expectations and technologies for a Web Infrastructure project. This project involved initial installation of four Sun Fire v220 web servers and for installation and configuration of a Sun StorEdge 6320. Developed Project Plans and managed resources to these plans. Responsible for tracking budget to actual, and for communications of all project status to the customer and to Sun internal organizations.
Project Manager / Technical Lead
Managed $15 million Public Key Infrastructure ("PKI") deployment. Project covered server, network, physical security and power installation, configuration and performance tuning for %99.999 available PKI service required by the customer. Project consisted of 4 Sun Fire 6800/4800 Clusters, Sun Netra T1 and 1405, Sun 220 R, Sun L700 Tape Management, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas File System and Veritas File Manger, Solaris JumpStart, Solaris Domain Management, CISCO 6509, Informix HA and Entrust CA.
IT Infrastructure Engineer Sun Cluster 3.1u3 Solaris 9 Oracle 9i RAC Cluster
Installed and configured Sun Cluster 3.1u3 on two, two node Sun Fire v880 clusters that run Oracle 9i RAC database in a multi-tiered environment. Configured IBM DS800 storage to be accessible to the Sun Cluster and Operating Systems on all cluster nodes. Configured LUNS on the IBM DS800 storage to be presented to Oracle 9i RAC in a highly available and high performance architecture for globally mounted file systems. Installed and configured Veritas Volume Manager and File System, VxVM and VxFS respectively, and configured global and local volumes to be utilized by the RAC database(s) and the cluster node operating system(s).
Configured CISCO 3660 switches to be utilized for the Sun Cluster Interconnect(s) which allow node-to-node communications for the operating system and RAC database engines. Configured IP to utilized Jumbo Frames which allow for less communications overhead for the RAC database engines. Configured multiple cluster interconnects to increase node-to-node bandwidth. Configured JumpStart for all cluster nodes.
IT Infrastructure Engineer BladeLogics Provisioning with Egenera Linux Blade Servers
Developed ITIL compliant processes and procedures for utilizing BladeLogics Provisioning Application in order to provision Egenera RedHat Linux Blade Servers running RedHat Enterprise Server. Also, utilized BladeLogics to provision Sun Solaris x86 and SPARC servers. Assisted Sun JES team in installing and configuring the Sun JES Identity Management and Identity Synchronization stacks in order to allow the customer to progress toward Role Based Access Control, RBAC, and to synchronize the Sun JES Identity Management database with the Windows Identity servers. Installed and configured SUN JES Application Server for this endeavor.
IT Infrastructure Engineer Sun Cluster 3.1u2 Solaris 9 e6900/6320 SAN Architect
Installed and configured Sun Cluster 3.1u2 on two, two node e6900 clusters that run Oracle 8.1.7.x RDMS for Oracle Applications ERP System. Effort included installation and configuration of Solaris 9 operating system, Solaris Volume Manager for mirroring the system disks, and Sun Cluster 3.1u2 on all nodes of the the clusters. Configured internal and external network interfaces (front end, back end and management) for the clusters. Configured and implemented SAN storage Solution running on a Sun StorEdge 6320 consisting of 5 T-4/6120 bricks. Storage utilizes Solaris Volume Manager to manage the disk groups both in the cluster environments and in application tier environments.
Architected and Implemented a SAN backup solution for the two Sun Fire e6900 clusters and the v880 application tiers utilizing Sun Qlogic SAN switches, StoreADE configurator services and StorAID monitoring for the SAN. The backup is built utilizing Veritas NetBackup 5.1. Effort included designing a robust architecture that supported future growth, business rules, archiving rules, off-site storage, tape rotation, efficient utilization of the storage device (Sun StorEdge L100 using 5 SDLT drives with two Fibre-to-SCSI bridge cards), and efficient network and SAN bandwidth. Worked with business owners to determine off site storage requirements, business continuity planning and disaster recovery requirements. Worked with Oracle DBA team to determine efficient algorithms for multi-plexing backups of the Oracle 8i databases in both production and pre-production environments. This design is a work in progress toward FCG's goal of an enterprise backup solution. This solution will plug into the enterprise solution once that is in place.
Also responsible for day-to-day system administration of the clusters and the v880 application tier computers as well as the v480/L100 backup solution.
IT Infrastructure Engineer JES Directory Server
Installed and configured the Sun Java Enterprise Services Directory Server and Administration Server on two (2) Sun Fire V440 servers. These Infrastructure Directory Servers are configured in a Multi-Master topology, utilizing SSL for secure replication over the local area network. A Disaster Recovery site also includes two (2) Sun Fire v440 servers that utilize the same topology. Replication between the on-line and DR sites is over SSL secure replication on the customer's wide area network. Assisted in migrating identity data from legacy directory server. Assisted in migration of identity extraction programs to utilize the newly installed directory infrastructure.
Professional Engineer
Conducted Sun Professional Services Application Readiness Service on two (2) Sun Fire 15k servers connected to EMC Connectrix Storage. These servers are composed of nine (9) distinct domains. All domains are designed for redundancy, fail-over, scalability and performance. Two domains are composed of the Sun SPARC IV Dual Core Processor system boards. This effort also included execution and testing of the Sun JASS Security Hardening packages on both the domains and system controllers. IP Multipathing was also installed on the Sun Fire system controllers. Knowledge transfer to the customer's system administrators was also a major component of this engagement.
Additionally this project involved migration of the customer's previous NetBackup solution to the new environment. This effort involved analysing the existing backup architecture and requirements and implementing those requirements with NetBackup v5.1 with an L700 StorageDevice with LTO-2 Drives. The customer requested a network only backup so bandwidth was a major consideration. Migration of the NetBackup catalog's was also part of this effort so that there was a “seamless” transition to the new system allowing for recovery of tapes from the old system until those tapes were to be retired.
Professional Engineer
Installation, configuration and testing of two Oracle RAC 9i clusters utilizing Sun Cluster 3.1u1, Solaris 9, Veritas Volume Manager 3.5, Sun 9960 and 9980 storage arrays. These clusters run on two SunFire 6800 servers. Institute production maintenance procedures and accomplish knowledge transfer to customer's system administrators and database administrators.
I T Infrastructure Process Engineer
Conducted high availability gap analysis based upon Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) recommendations and data center best practices focusing on hardware, software, network, people, processes and procedures for all business units having an business interest. Upon remediation of gaps customers met or exceeded their service level agreements, such as %99.999 uptime, global deployment, and government required security. Projects consisted of Sun Fire E12K, Sun Fire E15K, and Sun Fire 6800 all in clustered environments, including the AT&T MetroCluster, running Oracle RAC 9i and in-house built highly available software packages. A major component of this effort was to work with the Enterprise Storage team in order to review their backup architecture which utilizes NetVault's Back-Bone and multiple StorageTek L700 libraries with LTO-2 Drives.
Project Manager/Architect, Professional Engineer
Directed ITIL project for a US Government division's data center managers. Concentration is on Change, Configuration and Release Management. Coordinated process and procedures for C&CM throughout the data center's IT organization. Assisted in aligning IT processes with Business Unit process and policies. Reviewed the impact of Service Level Agreements that are already in place against the new processes. Assisted the IT staff in implement infrastructure architectures including Configuration Service Tracker, Sun Remote Services, SunONE Message Server, SunONE Directory Server and SunONE Message server. Reviewed and modified existing IT standard operating procedures and adapted those to ITIL and Sun Best Practices.
Implemented a 6-node Sun Cluster 3.1 architecture running on Sun Fire 6800 Servers for one of Sun's Center's of Excellence partners. This cluster consisted of highly complex fail-over strategies allowing for five-nine's (%99.999) availability of their on-line systems. Veritas 3.5 File System over a SAN running Brocade SAN switches and storage on a Sun/Hitachi 9960 storage array. Databases consisted of various versions of Oracle.
Completed Sun Application Readiness service for a nine (9) domain Sun Fire 12K. This service consists of configuration of the operating system, platform systems, network and storage. Storage was connected via Brocade SAN switches and resides on a Sun/Hitachi 9960 storage array.
Sun Microsystems, Incorporated – Cleveland, Ohio 2001-2002
Technical Mana ger/Professional Engineer in Professional Services Division
Directed and implemented high availability projects and provided technical analysis and level of effort during pre-sales engagements.
Conducted high availability gap analysis based upon ITIL recommendations and data center best practices focusing on hardware, software, network, people, processes and procedures for all business units having an business interest. Upon remediation of gaps customers met or exceeded their service level agreements, such as %99.999 uptime, global deployment, and government required security. Projects consisted of Sun Fire E12K, Sun Fire E15K, and Sun Fire 6800 all in clustered environments running Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, SunONE stack and in-house built highly available software packages.
SunONE Directory Server implementation, installation, configuration, performance tuning, high availability architecture, schema design, encapsulation and extraction from existing data sources for web hosting and retail companies that resulted in greater reliability, availability and scalability over their existing ad-hoc implementations. Additionally, Sun ONE Application Server, Web Server, and Portal server were also deployed for these projects.
Executed Sun Application Readiness for Oracle 8i on Sun Fire E15K and Sun Fire E12K. Effort included installation/JumpStart of operating system, Veritas File Manager and File System. Installation and configuration of various PCI cards including QFE and HME. IPMP and network installation and configuration including security hardening of all servers.
Conducted a migration of a Decision Support System for an international finance corporation from HPUX to Sun Solaris running on Sun Fire 6800. Technologies included Cognos and customized Perl scripts that accomplished ETL functionality for the DSS cubes.
COMMERCEQUEST, INC. - Tampa, Florida 2000-2001
Commercequest delivers innovative software to solve integration challenges of Global 2000 companies by adding value to industry leading messaging middleware such as IBM MQSeries.
Solutions Architect
Architected middleware based B-2-B e-commerce solutions into customers infrastructure.
Connected various customers to Net Market Makers allowing for distribution and consumption of their goods via secure, automated Internet processes. Efforts involved setting up customers firewalls to accept these new transactions, EDI, XML, ebXML and customized message processing and field mapping, integration into DB2, Oracle and Informix databases and performance/availability testing.
Utilized EnableNet BPI and DI in order to model actual business process and convert those processes into customized message and transactions that flow over the MQ Series architecture. Efforts also included performance and availability testing and configuration of underlying MQ Series components.
Created customized processing in Java and C/C++ to seamlessly integrate the middleware suite into DB2, Informix and Oracle infrastructures. Utilized MQSI to managed distributed transactions.
YOUNG & RUBICAM - Detroit, Michigan/Toronto, Ontario 1999-2000
Diversified, global marketing and communications organization with integrated services in advertising, database marketing, customer relationship, perception management, and branding identity consultation
Director of Data Warehousing CRM Division
Responsible for budget, personnel management and technical direction of all customer centric database solutions. Developed software/hardware standards, processes and procedures for long term planning of CRM division. Directed software/hardware development at Relationship Management Centre in Toronto, Ontario that handled fulfillment of marketing campaigns for automotive customers.
Developed CRM hardware and software consolidation plans for worldwide operations resulting in consolidation of sites in 4 countries to Chicago, IL. Directed software and hardware efforts for building complex CRM based targeted marketing campaigns for automotive and financial customers. Built customer centric CRM data warehouse, which allowed complex models to be built. Projects resulted in an increase in customer loyalty by %15, cross-sales increase of %20 and a %25 reduction in fulfillment costs.
INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. - Menlo Park, California 1997-1999
Member of Enterprise Architecture Team for North America. This team was responsible for architecting data warehousing solutions for GM Corporation Sales and IS&S Groups, Sears and other large customers.
Professional Services Enterprise Architect
Architect and implement enterprise database solutions for Fortune 500 companies and Internet companies.
Implemented enterprise data warehouse for an automotive manufacturer which incorporated sales, service and marketing data, which cut service delivery costs by %5 annually . Technologies included Informix XPS, MicroStrategies DSS, MetaData and ETL tool suite, DB2 extraction scripts, 4GL programs to accomplish ETL and data cleansing.
Architected customized enterprise database for an international bulk data fulfillment company, which allowed for complex internationalization of user interfaces for global deployment of their product suite.
Managed migration of an NCR Teradata data warehouse to Informix and migration of Oracle OLTP databases to Informix for telecommunications company lowering maintenance and production costs by $7 million annually.
Tuned and customized an 8TB decision support data warehouse for international airline data processing company, which allowed complex analysis of flight segments in order to maximize ROI on flight segments. This database ran on a Sun E10K with EMC storage arrays.
EDUCATION:
B.S., Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
CERTIFICATIONS & AWARDS:
Sun Certified Systems Engineer
Informix Certified System Administrator, Informix Certified Performance Tuner
Certification of Achievement, Informix Software for General Motors/EDS Data Warehouse
Informix VIP Member for Enterprise Services, Sun 400 Club for 2 Quarters
PRINCE2 Practitioner for Project Management
Sun Cluster Configuration and Management
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