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Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Product Manager, Competitive Analysis
Protecting over 300 million email accounts, Cisco IronPort is a technology leader whose security applications are used by organizations of all sizes around the world. IronPort provides innovative and high performance products for those faced with the task of managing and protecting their mission-critical networks from Internet threats.
Cisco’s recent acquisition of IronPort marks the second largest private transaction in the company’s history. IronPort now operates as an independent business unit within Cisco. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our Product Management team in order to support and participate in our rapid independent growth as well as the tremendous new market opportunities that will come through Cisco.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a world-class team in a fast-growing entrepreneurial environment, while having access to the resources of the largest networking and communcations company on the planet.
Job Description:
The Product Manager for Competitive Analysis supports the sales team, other product managers, and marketing through analysis of competitive products and the overall market, then effectively position IronPort products by developing comprehensive positioning materials for use by the sales force and PM organization. A huge responsibility of this role is to provide an honest and accurate assessment of IronPort’s position in the market, and our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This position is both strategic and tactical, and is best filled by someone who wants to chart their own course to fulfill their mission.
Successful candidates will be comfortable interacting with a top-notch sales force, worldwide customers, and a highly motivated PM team. Candidates must have the desire to provide a strong voice within Product Management and Marketing, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced self-directed organization. This is a growth position meant to help someone with strong communication skills and a technical background evolve into a strong cross-functional leader.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Perform analysis of competitive products by self-directed research leveraging all available resources. Produce succinct documentation on competitors for distribution to direct and channel sales force. Influence product requirements to contest competitive offerings. Respond to competitive announcements with quick blurbs to sales force.
• Manage the process of product reviews with industry publications. Position IronPort products to win reviews. Provide technical direction to reviewers and testers on why IronPort is the best choice. Develop a reviewer's guide to influence the criteria and methodology for product reviews.
• Act as a company representative in customer, analyst, industry group, and press-facing situations.
• Support sales and marketing efforts as required. Some travel required (including international).
• Develop clear and compelling marketing messages to position IronPort products to win engagements in all market segments. Test, measure, and improve the effectiveness of messaging. Write marketing collateral (e.g. white papers and data sheets) and develop presentations using these messages to influence customers to purchase IronPort products.
Required Experience and Skills:
• BS/BA degree, CS or EE degree a plus, MBA or business classes a plus.
• 2 - 6 years experience in leading efforts in a related field such as product marketing, sales, or engineering.
• Strong technical ability to setup and configure email and web security systems to perform side-by-side analysis.
• Previous focus on analysis of technical products a plus.
• Knowledge of influential industry analysts and press a plus.
• Understanding of the email and web security space is important.
• Comfortable with public speaking in groups of 20 or more individuals.
• Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of urgency. Must be resourceful, proactive and aggressive.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity.
• Team player that works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments.
• Exceptional written and oral presentation skills required.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
WSA Engineering Manager
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
WSA Engineering Manager
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
IronPort is looking for an engineering manager to build out and lead a system software development team that will be delivering industry-changing, next generation, solutions for its Web Security and Management Appliance Group.
The Web Security and Management Appliance Group is responsible for two of IronPort’s product lines: the Web Security and Management Appliances. We are looking for a manager with proven experience in participating at a key level in system software projects. This would include past experience in design, development, and creation of a usable and stable product. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with a cross functional team to facilitate, organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities. Development will be on a UNIX based platform integrating with code written in Python and C.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Experienced in managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise class system software development
• Experienced in building out and managing a high performance development team, including: hiring, setting up development environment, QA / testing facilities, release management, technical support, and project management
• Looking for candidates that have a passion for delivering high quality software and shows a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product.
• Capable of jumping in and performing hands-on development tasks as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
• 5+ Years experience with the management of software design and implementation of high-performance system software
• Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
• Development of applications that run in distributed and centraliz
Desired Experience and Skills:
• Has direct experience with large scale engineering projects.
• Development in embedded real-time environments
• Has worked with a spectrum of languages, from machine-level (some assembly) to OO-based languages (Python/Java/C++), and everything in between (C/shell/Perl)
• Prior experience in the email technology or web proxy space is desirable
• Localization and authentication design and implementation
• LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
• Knowledge of network security and other related fields
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: Candidate can reject setbacks and enthusiastically persists until ambitious goals are achieved. The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter.
• Flexible and adaptable: Candidate should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
• Communicative: Candidate will take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance. Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on his or her priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on his or her work
• Attention to detail: Candidate must live by the mantra of "the devil is in the details" and will take great pride in getting it right.
• Accountability: Candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives.
• Efficient and Creative: Candidate should be able to think outside the box to find the optimal solution to problems.
• Problem solver: Candidate should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation
• "The Customer Comes First" Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer's needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
WSA Engineering Manager
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
IronPort is looking for an engineering manager to build out and lead a system software development team that will be delivering industry-changing, next generation, solutions for its Web Security and Management Appliance Group.
The Web Security and Management Appliance Group is responsible for two of IronPort’s product lines: the Web Security and Management Appliances. We are looking for a manager with proven experience in participating at a key level in system software projects. This would include past experience in design, development, and creation of a usable and stable product. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with a cross functional team to facilitate, organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities. Development will be on a UNIX based platform integrating with code written in Python and C.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Experienced in managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise class system software development
• Experienced in building out and managing a high performance development team, including: hiring, setting up development environment, QA / testing facilities, release management, technical support, and project management
• Looking for candidates that have a passion for delivering high quality software and shows a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product.
• Capable of jumping in and performing hands-on development tasks as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
• 5+ Years experience with the management of software design and implementation of high-performance system software
• Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
• Development of applications that run in distributed and centraliz
Desired Experience and Skills:
• Has direct experience with large scale engineering projects.
• Development in embedded real-time environments
• Has worked with a spectrum of languages, from machine-level (some assembly) to OO-based languages (Python/Java/C++), and everything in between (C/shell/Perl)
• Prior experience in the email technology or web proxy space is desirable
• Localization and authentication design and implementation
• LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
• Knowledge of network security and other related fields
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: Candidate can reject setbacks and enthusiastically persists until ambitious goals are achieved. The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter.
• Flexible and adaptable: Candidate should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
• Communicative: Candidate will take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance. Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on his or her priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on his or her work
• Attention to detail: Candidate must live by the mantra of "the devil is in the details" and will take great pride in getting it right.
• Accountability: Candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives.
• Efficient and Creative: Candidate should be able to think outside the box to find the optimal solution to problems.
• Problem solver: Candidate should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation
• "The Customer Comes First" Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer's needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Quality Assurance Technical Engineer
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Quality Assurance Technical Engineer
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
The QA Technical Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality of IronPort’s E-Mail Security Products. Possessing strong whitebox testing experience, the QA Technical Engineer will be involved in the entire QA cycle from requirements evaluation, to test case development and execution, to product readiness, defect status, and test results reporting. The successful candidate will use knowledge of the software development lifecycle, use case definition, and testing tools and methodologies to ensure customer satisfaction with our initial and future releases. QA Technical Engineer will be an independent self-starter who can multi-task across projects and effectively organize your time under tight deadlines. In addition, the QA Technical Engineer will maintain the performance and functional testing tools, integrating enhancements as needed.
Requirements:
• Must have a minimum of 4 years’ solid testing and programming experience in a product environment.
• Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in defining and creating test harnesses from engineering and product management/marketing documentation
• Proven track record of delivering quality in a highly available, scalable environment
• MUST HAVE extensive hands-on experience with UNIX commands; Shell scripting and administrator experience is a plus
• White box testing experience, especially in C, Python or Perl
• Experience setting up a robust test environment, and writing test harnesses and test scripts that are reusable for successive product releases. Must be willing to solicit feedback on tools and incorporate enhancements into them as needed.
• Have practical understanding of QA processes and methodologies; some experience with formal software standards (CMM, IEEE, ISO 9001) desired
• Experience with formal defect-tracking software and automation tools.
• Possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills; perform detailed analysis of test results to uncover product defects and incomplete test cases
• Must be able to define acceptance criteria and report on the current state of the software to various groups within the organization
• Solid understanding of the build release process and configuration management
• Able to create and maintain release procedure guidelines to QA for each internal and external release
• Eagerness to learn new technologies/skills
Desired Skills:
• Knowledge of protocols: SMTP, LDAP, IMAP, POP, DNS, FTP, SSH
• Configuration management/release engineering experience
• Hardware testing or embedded software testing experience
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: The successful candidate will reject setbacks and will enthusiastically persist until ambitious goals are achieved. He or she will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex technical challenges in a sustainable, proactive fashion.
• Passionate commitment to quality. Champions quality across all stages of SDLC and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related tasks.
• Accountability: He or she should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds himself accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of quality initiatives.
• Sense of urgency. Escalates quality issues when appropriate; maintains a sense of “bug ownership” to see all issues through to a successful resolution. Strives to turn around issues with an efficient and effective approach.
• Flexibility and adaptability. Should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Quality Assurance Technical Engineer
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
The QA Technical Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality of IronPort’s E-Mail Security Products. Possessing strong whitebox testing experience, the QA Technical Engineer will be involved in the entire QA cycle from requirements evaluation, to test case development and execution, to product readiness, defect status, and test results reporting. The successful candidate will use knowledge of the software development lifecycle, use case definition, and testing tools and methodologies to ensure customer satisfaction with our initial and future releases. QA Technical Engineer will be an independent self-starter who can multi-task across projects and effectively organize your time under tight deadlines. In addition, the QA Technical Engineer will maintain the performance and functional testing tools, integrating enhancements as needed.
Requirements:
• Must have a minimum of 4 years’ solid testing and programming experience in a product environment.
• Possess outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must utilize these skills to communicate effectively across all groups in the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in defining and creating test harnesses from engineering and product management/marketing documentation
• Proven track record of delivering quality in a highly available, scalable environment
• MUST HAVE extensive hands-on experience with UNIX commands; Shell scripting and administrator experience is a plus
• White box testing experience, especially in C, Python or Perl
• Experience setting up a robust test environment, and writing test harnesses and test scripts that are reusable for successive product releases. Must be willing to solicit feedback on tools and incorporate enhancements into them as needed.
• Have practical understanding of QA processes and methodologies; some experience with formal software standards (CMM, IEEE, ISO 9001) desired
• Experience with formal defect-tracking software and automation tools.
• Possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills; perform detailed analysis of test results to uncover product defects and incomplete test cases
• Must be able to define acceptance criteria and report on the current state of the software to various groups within the organization
• Solid understanding of the build release process and configuration management
• Able to create and maintain release procedure guidelines to QA for each internal and external release
• Eagerness to learn new technologies/skills
Desired Skills:
• Knowledge of protocols: SMTP, LDAP, IMAP, POP, DNS, FTP, SSH
• Configuration management/release engineering experience
• Hardware testing or embedded software testing experience
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: The successful candidate will reject setbacks and will enthusiastically persist until ambitious goals are achieved. He or she will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex technical challenges in a sustainable, proactive fashion.
• Passionate commitment to quality. Champions quality across all stages of SDLC and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related tasks.
• Accountability: He or she should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds himself accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of quality initiatives.
• Sense of urgency. Escalates quality issues when appropriate; maintains a sense of “bug ownership” to see all issues through to a successful resolution. Strives to turn around issues with an efficient and effective approach.
• Flexibility and adaptability. Should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Engineering Manager
It’s an Exciting Time to Work at Cisco!
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Engineering Manager
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
IronPort is looking for an engineering manager to build out and lead a system software development team that will be delivering industry-changing, next generation, solutions for its Web Security and Management Appliance Group.
The Web Security and Management Appliance Group is responsible for two of IronPort’s product lines: the Web Security and Management Appliances. We are looking for a manager with proven experience in participating at a key level in system software projects. This would include past experience in design, development, and creation of a usable and stable product. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with a cross functional team to facilitate, organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities. Development will be on a UNIX based platform integrating with code written in Python and C.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Experienced in managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise class system software development
• Experienced in building out and managing a high performance development team, including: hiring, setting up development environment, QA / testing facilities, release management, technical support, and project management
• Looking for candidates that have a passion for delivering high quality software and shows a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product.
• Capable of jumping in and performing hands-on development tasks as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
• 5+ Years experience with the management of software design and implementation of high-performance system software
• Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
• Development of applications that run in distributed and centraliz
Desired Experience and Skills:
• Has direct experience with large scale engineering projects.
• Development in embedded real-time environments
• Has worked with a spectrum of languages, from machine-level (some assembly) to OO-based languages (Python/Java/C++), and everything in between (C/shell/Perl)
• Prior experience in the email technology or web proxy space is desirable
• Localization and authentication design and implementation
• LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
• Knowledge of network security and other related fields
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: Candidate can reject setbacks and enthusiastically persists until ambitious goals are achieved. The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter.
• Flexible and adaptable: Candidate should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
• Communicative: Candidate will take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance. Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on his or her priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on his or her work
• Attention to detail: Candidate must live by the mantra of "the devil is in the details" and will take great pride in getting it right.
• Accountability: Candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives.
• Efficient and Creative: Candidate should be able to think outside the box to find the optimal solution to problems.
• Problem solver: Candidate should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation
• "The Customer Comes First" Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer's needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
Like the networks we build, our team is a broad network of individuals collaborating to change how the world works, lives, plays and learns.
Engineering Manager
IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort Systems Platform Engineering team is looking for software engineering talent and experience to help set the direction for ongoing development of its Email and Web Security Appliance GUIs.
Job Description:
IronPort is looking for an engineering manager to build out and lead a system software development team that will be delivering industry-changing, next generation, solutions for its Web Security and Management Appliance Group.
The Web Security and Management Appliance Group is responsible for two of IronPort’s product lines: the Web Security and Management Appliances. We are looking for a manager with proven experience in participating at a key level in system software projects. This would include past experience in design, development, and creation of a usable and stable product. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with a cross functional team to facilitate, organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities. Development will be on a UNIX based platform integrating with code written in Python and C.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Experienced in managing the entire lifecycle of enterprise class system software development
• Experienced in building out and managing a high performance development team, including: hiring, setting up development environment, QA / testing facilities, release management, technical support, and project management
• Looking for candidates that have a passion for delivering high quality software and shows a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product.
• Capable of jumping in and performing hands-on development tasks as needed
Required Experience and Skills:
• 5+ Years experience with the management of software design and implementation of high-performance system software
• Experience with Python and Code Generation techniques desired
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• General networking knowledge with protocol level knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS/FTP/RTSP/IM/P2P
• Development of applications that run in distributed and centraliz
Desired Experience and Skills:
• Has direct experience with large scale engineering projects.
• Development in embedded real-time environments
• Has worked with a spectrum of languages, from machine-level (some assembly) to OO-based languages (Python/Java/C++), and everything in between (C/shell/Perl)
• Prior experience in the email technology or web proxy space is desirable
• Localization and authentication design and implementation
• LDAP/Active Directory, RADIUS, and other authentication systems
• Knowledge of network security and other related fields
Personal Characteristics:
• Indomitable work ethic: Candidate can reject setbacks and enthusiastically persists until ambitious goals are achieved. The successful candidate will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a timely matter.
• Flexible and adaptable: Candidate should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply themselves to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.
• Communicative: Candidate will take an "open source" attitude to quality assurance. Keeps others in the company informed and up to date on his or her priorities, current tasks and work completed. Encourages constructive criticism on his or her work
• Attention to detail: Candidate must live by the mantra of "the devil is in the details" and will take great pride in getting it right.
• Accountability: Candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of customer and product initiatives.
• Efficient and Creative: Candidate should be able to think outside the box to find the optimal solution to problems.
• Problem solver: Candidate should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a common sense and practical solutions orientation
• "The Customer Comes First" Attitude: Candidate will demonstrate passionate commitment to the customer and to product quality. Champions the product and the customer's needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related task.
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.
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