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Please note that our firm conducts contingency AND retainer based searches and the following are ONLY some of the current contingency based searches that we are currently working on. We DO NOT advertise our retained based senior management search projects due to the high degree of confidentially that these require. If you would like to be considered for our retained searches or senior management searches (primarily in the Information Technology or Human Resources areas), then please send your resume to greg.david@laka.com and we will make sure that your resume is confidentially added to our system for current/future project consideration. Resumes must include full name and full contact information for you to be considered. Resumes without phone number, home address, email address, and first and last name will not be considered. Unless otherwise noted, all positions require that candidates be able to work for any USA employer without sponsorship. ****WE DO NOT DO CORP.TO CORP
LKW 2352 Web Apps Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) FSLC (Full Systems Life Cycle) programming of a myriad of web based internet and intranet based applications in .NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript, VBScript, SQL, Visual Basic, and MS SQL Server; (2) Providing application support including troubleshooting through resolution of application and system based errors; (3) Report design and development in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. REQUIRED: 3 years of STRONG/CURRENT .NET, ASP.NET, HTML, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL, and MS SQL Server web (Intranet and Internet) based applications. MUST have VS 2008 and VSS/Team Foundation Server. MUST have VERY STRONG SQL and VERY STRONG experience working with large amounts of MS SQL Server data. STRONG/CURRENT experience creating webpage templates, creating and maintaining menus, data formats, screen formats, global and local data dictionaries, and file links with other systems. STRONG/CURRENT experience acting as a liaison between users and software vendors to communicate system enhancement requests and bug fixes. STRONG/CURRENT experience creating, monitoring, and maintaining regular data transfers between internal systems such as general ledger file transfers and other file transfers. STRONG/CURRENT experience providing 1st and 2nd level application support. MUST have EXCELLENT communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills with a superb customer facing demeanor and bedside manner. Pluses: VS 2010. Oracle Essbase. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. LKW 2351 Business Solutions Manager Duties: You will be responsible for : (1) Managing a small group of Business Analysts; (2) Implementing IT governance process from ground up; (3) Identifying future user demands and requirements along with setting priorities; (4) Establishing strong strategic partnerships with key clients; (5) Driving IT change process requests; (6) Interfacing globally with Business Operations, Logistics and Finance; (7) Interfacing between IT and Business Units. Required: 7 years implementing IT Governance. 7 years Project Management and Analysis. Experienced in pulling people, process, and technology together. Experienced in Delivering Business Solutions. LKW 2350 Manager Technical Architecture Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Managing four developers; (2) Upgrading JD Edwards software from XE to 9.0; (3) Implementing JDE modules to 30 sites, US and global; (4) Leading technical aspects from development and programming; (5) Interfacing of different modules; (6) Driving delivery times and reports; (7) Working within shared services group; (8) Determining the “what” and “how” project will get done. Required: STRONG/CURRENT implementation of JD Edwards distribution modules. STRONG/CURRENT .NET, JAVA, JDETOOLS. Must have Visual C++, Cognos BI, SQL Server integration SQL Server, DB-2 and AS400-I. LKW 2349 UI Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Working as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in formal UI (user interface) development focusing on the best UI design and usability solutions available; (2) Developing UI workflows and screens based on the requirements provided by UI designers; (3) Researching, isolating, and resolving code issues. REQUIRED: MUST have an undergraduate degree from a good school. MUST have 4 years of STRONG/CURRENT Windows development experience with a CORE job focus on UI development. MUST have 4 years of C#, ASP.NET, UI web development to include utilizing JavaScript, AJAX, ASP, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, C#, Silverlight, .PNG files. LKW 2348 UI Designer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with regards to UI (User Interface) design; (2) Designing the intuitiveness and usability of packaged software; (3) Mining the HF (human factor) data, building user requirements from the user community, and providing data and specifications to support UI design and workflow; (3) Designing interfaces and providing specifications to development teams so they can build software interfaces; (4) Balancing usability, scalability, and flexibility with design needs and goals; (5) Researching, isolating, and resolving code issues. REQUIRED: MUST have an undergraduate degree from a good school. MUST have 4 years of Windows development with a CORE JOB FOCUS on UI design and usability. MUST have 4 years of STRONG/CURRENT C#, ASP.NET, UI design and development to include utilizing JavaScript, AJAX, ASP, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, C#, Silverlight, .PNG files. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT Web Content Management tools experience such as SDL Tridion or similar. MUST have ability to write valid W3C standards compliant cross-browser/cross-platform markup. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT Adobe Photoshop, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver. MUST have EXCELLENT debugging techniques. MUST have STRONG experience with the software development lifecycle, various methodologies (i.e. waterfall, SCRUM, Agile) with good knowledge of associated tools and techniques used to manage development branches. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT experience writing technical specifications and system design documents. LKW 2347 Python Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Full Systems Life Cycle (FSLC) development in Python, C++, and LISP in this state of the art, complex, mission critical environment; (2) Providing support as needed; (3) Providing input proactively to improve the quality, stability, and speed of developed solutions. REQUIRED: MUST have an undergraduate degree from an excellent school with an excellent GPA. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT Python programming (not Python scripting, but actual Python development). MUST have a strong math background (academic and/or work related). MUST have C++ and/or functional programming experience with LISP or a similar language. LKW 2346 Senior Software Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Architecture design and prototyping of concepts to proof of concept; (2) Development of coding standards; (3) Design and development of source code and test plans; (4) Application debugging; (5) Design and implementation of code that follows efficient design techniques; (6) Code development that meets and exceeds the intent of the design of the application; (7) Participating in product requirement and design reviews with product managers and other engineers; (8) Performing in a team lead role effectively managing multiple priorities for a team of software developers; (9) Facilitating and guiding initiatives for improving development processes; (10) Performing mentoring and peer reviews; (11) Working in a test-driven development environment; (12) Developing time estimates for work assignments; (13) Accurately determining, assigning, tracking, and managing project task, activity, and documentation; (14) Producing produce technical specifications, designs and architectures from high level business requirements; (15) Lending support to various business and technology teams during design, development, and delivery to ensure solid, scalable, robust solutions; (16) Providing ownership of the software throughout the entire development process. REQUIRED: MUST have 5 or more years of programming with at least of 3 years of CURRENT/STRONG C# and ASP.NET. MUST have .NET 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005) and Windows XP/Vista/7 / Windows Server 2003/2008, IIS and SQL-Server 2005/2008. MUST be STRONG/CURRENT in object oriented programming and be familiar with software development methodologies. MUST have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. MUST have ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment. MUST be self-motivated.
Pluses: Experience with design patterns and code analysis tools (ANTs, Profilers, etc.). .NET 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008). LKW 2345 Software Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Design, programming, and support of software in C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET; (2) Developing time estimates for work assignments; (3) Providing status reports of current work in progress. REQUIRED: MUST have 2 years of STRONG programming experience with C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET. MUST have experience with modern object oriented programming and software development methodologies. MUST be a rapid learner with ability to grasp design concepts and understand existing code with little assistance. MUST have RDBMS. MUST have ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment and have EXCELLENT communication and interpersonal skills. MUST be self-motivated.
LKW 2344 Solutions Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) technical solutions development in this sophisticated Core Java, C++, C#, T-SQL, multi-threaded, mission critical environment; (2) Performing analysis and using your deep problem solving skills where required; (3) Working closely with other technical and business groups to create unique solutions; (4) Analyzing and drawing accurate conclusions from large amounts of data, transforming data at a detail and big picture level, into actionable information. REQUIRED: MUST have an undergraduate degree from an excellent school with an excellent GPA. MUST, MUST, MUST have a STRONG/CURRENT background in mathematics or risk. MUST have EXPERT level CORE Java and SQL/T-SQL OR C++ and SQL/T-SQL development skills. MUST have excellent analytical and problem solving skills. MUST have excellent communication, interpersonal, and team/people focused skills. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT experience working with large amounts of data, and have ability to analyze large amounts of data at both a detail and big picture level, and transform into actionable information. Pluses: Brokerage/Trading/Investment industry. LKW 2343 Self Clearing Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) FSLC development of highly sophisticated mission-critical solutions in this C#, 3.5, VS 2010 environment; (2) Working closely with an assembled team of some of the brightest and most accomplished development minds in the industry; (3) Providing support of existing applications and developed systems. REQUIRED: MUST have an undergraduate from an excellent academic institution with an excellent GPA. MUST be an EXPERT in C# development with STRONG/CURRENT deep experience with the more advanced features of the 3.5 version. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT SQL development skills. MUST have VS 2010 experience. LKW 2342 Development Lead Architect DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Leading, supervising, and coaching/mentoring a technical team while remaining very hands on technically; (2) Acting as a champion and promoter of the SDLC process by employing and supporting metrics, Agile/test driven development, short release cycles, resource driven project plans, cross functional communication, quality assurance; (3) Assembling highly successful and high performing teams where you specifically leverage individual capabilities and strengths; (4) Establishing vision and goals and driving high performance management, supporting career development and succession planning, and rewarding strong performance for achievers; (5) Designing, architecting, building, and deploying a state of the art, highly sophisticated technology platform; (6) Managing timelines and deadlines, end user and business unit expectations, and deliverables to ensure that expectations are met and exceeded; (7) Managing relationships within the user community to senior executive level to ensure alignment between technical strategy and business strategy; (8) Strategic and tactical initiative management. REQUIRED: MUST have an undergraduate degree from an excellent academic institution with an excellent GPA. MUST be a VERY hands on technical leader who is at the peak of their technical ability with regards to C++ technical architecture and low level development in a LINUX environment. MUST have 10 + years of technical depth of complex, mission critical systems AND proven ability to manage both tactical and strategic projects including staff. MUST have exceptional skill in leading a large scale, high performance, distributed, real-time, low latency, load balanced, fault tolerant system environment. MUST have DEEP business knowledge with Algorithmic Trading, Crossing, Smart Routing. MUST have STRONG experience with electronic trading components including data dependencies (static, historical statistics). Pluses: Java. Python. Futures, Fixed Income, Options, Equities. LKW 2341 Network Operations Analyst DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Daily network, server and application environments monitoring; (2) Proactively monitoring, maintaining, and managing external connectivity to external sites; (3) Troubleshooting sophisticated networking issues down to the bit level and up to the application layer; (4) Initiating, monitoring, prioritizing, and managing trouble tickets and providing critical thinking to complex problems in a 24/7, mission critical network environment; (5) Isolating network faults rapidly and performing advanced troubleshooting and resolution; (6) Relationship building with third party organizations and proactively collecting and communicating third party network, systems, and architectural changes to management; (7) Managing and maintaining documentation pertaining to third party network and system architectures; (8) Identifying enhancements to existing configurations, technologies, or procedures; (9) Working closely with all IT functional areas to design and implement operational requirements for new and existing IT systems; (10) Providing data center management; (11) Providing on call support on a shared rotational basis. REQUIRED: MUST currently be located in the Chicago metropolitan area. MUST have 5 years or more of STRONG/CURRENT system and network monitoring using programs such as SNMPc, Nagios, Cacti, Netscout, Seanet, Corvil and Solarwinds. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT TCP/IP and Multicast experience. MUST have detailed knowledge of the OSI layers 1‐4 and associated equipment. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT functional knowledge of protocols like STP, BGP, OSPF, PIM, IGMP, MSDP, EIGRP, SNMP. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT advanced network technologies experience such as as QoS, CoS, IDS/IPS, VoIP, Flow Control, PFC, store‐and‐forward switching, cut‐through switching, DWDM and CWDM. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT packet sniffing applications experience (i.e. snort, TCPDump, wireshark, netmon, etc). MUST have STRONG/CURRENT network architecture design and implementation experience. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT experience with source code control systems, and bug tracking systems like JIRA. LKW 2340 Banner Consultant DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Providing first response day to day support and troubleshooting of BANNER production systems; (2) Opening help desk tickets and acting as the primary initial contact to a diverse end-user community; (3) Performing account maintenance and granting user access and permissions; (4) Granting new rules; (5) Providing database back up support to team members; (6) Working with other members with regards to patch management; (7) Providing support as back up to the Oracle database team . REQUIRED: MUST have 1.5 years or more of STRONG Banner DBA experience to include: day to day support of production systems including opening help desk tickets, Banner account and user management, and providing initial Banner support. MUST have excellent communication, interpersonal, and end-user skills. Pluses: Oracle RDBMS; Metalink; Luminus portal or LDI; EBS. LKW 2339 Senior Web Developer Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Development of web-based application systems using SharePoint; (2) Focusing on Healthcare applications; (3) Focusing on a secure patient portal; (4) Working on development of medical software “Epic”; (5) Integrating medical module “MyChart”; (6) Working in a complex environment on complex applications; (7) Working on web development and implementation. Required: 2 years SharePoint development. Coming from .NET Enterprise environment. Current/Strong C# experience. Must be able to define requirements and deliverables. Must have above average communication skills. LKW 2338 IT Director Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Strategic and financial planning, policy processes; (2) Governance, program management, security, infrastructure and organizational architecture; (3) Overseeing geographic locations; (4) Overseeing research; (5) Evaluating/selecting vendors, hardware/software; (6) Building relationships with User community; (7) Evangelizing business strategy; (8) Designing/driving standardization and business continuity; (9) Leading IT steering group; (10) Ensuring successful staff and skill development programs. Required: 15 years career progression from Microsoft environment Coming out of multi-location insurance environments 8 years Sr. IT management experience Current/Strong Enterprise software applications Strategic planning for IT, budget, mergers and acquisition experience LKW 2337 Senior Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Design, programming, implementation and support of n-tier and highly advanced web based e-commerce based applications; (2) Working closely with end-users, executive management, business partners, third party vendors, and other IT professionals throughout the US and worldwide; (3) Actively participating in design sessions for process identification and redesign; (4) Designing and developing intuitive designs and specifications for offshore development staff; (5) Conducting virtual webinars to facilitate knowledge transfer to offshore development staff ; (6) Assisting with release management and active participation in every phase of the software development lifecycle (Agile and waterfall). REQUIRED: 10 years of STRONG/CURRENT programming of B2B or B2C e-commerce web based applications that are complex in nature. 5 yrs of EXPERT level & CURRENT C# and VB.NET and JavaScript development with web services, AJAX, UI design, stored procedures, DTS packages, SOAP, XML, UML, ODBC, MS SQL Server, IIS. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT experience with in depth software design, web (eCommerce or web based retail store) and client/server development, and problem solving skills. Ability to work as needed in pm and early am to conduct webinars and do knowledge transfer to off shore development staff. Must be eager to take on a leadership role and drive exciting, collaborative solutions. Personality: Must have attitude that nothing is impossible and be an optimist with setting and achieving high goals, while being a consummate team player. Must have excellent customer and relationship building skills with excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills. Pluses: Speaks/writes Mandarin Chinese. Team Foundation Server. Source Safe Version Control Tools. IIS. LKW 2336 Webmaster DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Maintaining and providing ‘Webmaster’ technical support for the organizational external facing website(s) and Intranet sites to include maintaining and administering all websites and web servers; (2) Acting as a primary interface and contact with external web hosting vendor(s) regarding hardware and software issues that affect the website performance and availability; (3) Monitoring and ensuring all software licenses are compliant; (4) Developing, implementing, and adhering to website policies and procedures, including end-user content change requests, posted update/maintenance schedules, and publishing web pages and applications to ensure site accuracy and timeliness; (5) Tracking and evaluating new standards, technologies, and trends in website development, design, and delivery; (6) Evaluating competitive organizational websites with regard to content and functionality and proactively driving change to organizational websites; (7) Evaluating and recommending solutions and vendors for web content authoring, development, and publishing tools; (8) Creating and maintaining a consistent website architectural structure; (9) Ensuring that the organizational websites have a consistent look and feel by promoting uniform styles including fonts, formatting, icons, images, and layout, and creating appropriate templates to assist content authors; (10) Identifying, implementing, and managing all website presence and promotional opportunities, such as (SEO) Search Engine Optimization and establishing pointer links from other relevant websites; (11) Recommending and implementing enhancements and modifications to the organizational websites; (12) Analyzing, reporting, and acting on intranet/extranet/portal/website user feedback; (13) Developing, programming, installing, testing, debugging, and documenting interactive web applications using the best suited editors and technologies; (14) Developing and driving production and integration of multimedia applications and initiatives in the organization with regard to video and data compression techniques, resolution, sizes, color maps, and depths to ensure high quality and a good balance of ease and speed of delivery; (15) Ensure that all Internet standards are followed and all website property, content, and domains are secure; (16) Working closely with the organizational IT staff; (17) Developing and executing organizational website marketing plans in accordance with the organizations overall strategic plan; (18) Leading and managing all website and page implementations and content management; (19) Providing accurate and proactive reporting on organizational website statistics and metrics. REQUIRED: 4 years experience working as a ‘webmaster’ with STRONG/CURRENT responsibility for complex and state of the art organizational websites to include: (1) website, web server, and web application technical support and administration; (2) STRONG/CURRENT content and interface design and management experience, STRONG/CURRENT protocol and development tools experience; (3) STRONG/CURRENT HTML, CSS, JavaScript; (4) STRONG/CURRENT RDMBS integration with MS SQL Server and/or Oracle and/or MySQL; (5) STRONG/CURRENT experience with computer graphics and multimedia design; (6) STRONG/CURRENT experience gathering requirements directly from organizational end-users and translating those business requirements into technical specifications while remaining hands on technically to perform that work while project managing the timelines and deliverables and coordinating solutions delivery. MUST have EXCEPTIONAL communication (verbal and written) and presentation and interpersonal skills. Pluses: Alfresco. RoR. Vignette. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). LKW 2335 Senior Software Developer Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Doing 20% to 30% performance monitoring; (2) Working in a small team of 15 people; (3) Developing multi-tiered object oriented systems; (4) Developing system framework, application components, reports, user interfaces, queries and n-tier systems; (5) Overseeing development and code reviews and doing website development; (6) Documenting, building and producing processes; (7) Working within a C#, .NET, JavaScript, SQL Server environment. Required: 5 years developing multi-tiered object oriented systems. 5 years developing C#, .NET framework, JavaScript and User interface design. Must come out of a SQL Server environment. Must have worked on multiple projects and can work on own. Must be a team player. Must have some SQL Server DBA experience. LKW 2334 Business Analyst Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Working within a 15 member staff within a smaller business environment; (2) Being the liaison to the IT team; (3) Analyzing business needs and assisting users identifying business needs; (4) Recommending solutions for business community to achieve goals; (5) Assessing processes and recommending improvements; (6) Implementing “best practices”; (7) documenting existing processes and improving processes; (8) Providing systems re-design. Required: 5 years experience in requirement gathering, requirement definition. 5 years analysis experience with tools such as Visio, etc. Must come out of a SQL Server, web-based environment. Must have Project Management experience. Must have understanding relational database modeling, O.O. programming, SDLC. Must have come through programming into BA. LKW 2333 QC Specialist Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Creating test plans ensuring that the software meets the user requirements; (2) Analyzing/Reporting test results; (3) Working with software development lifecycle; (4) Doing performance and load testing; (5) Doing automated testing; (6) Working with multiple projects; (7) Working in a Microsoft, C#, multi-tier web based environment; (8) Working with test suites that come with Microsoft tools; (9) Using TFS (Team Foundation Suite). Required: 5 years manual and automated formal testing tools. Coming out of a SQL Server and relational database environment. Having done software development lifecycle. Strong QA/QC methodologies and web based solutions. Strong performance and load testing. Experience in multiple projects. Must be good at testing queries. LKW 2332 Senior Network Engineer Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Architecting, building, supporting the integrity/stability of an IDO location network; (2) Supporting a 24x7 environment; (3) Supporting Cisco routers, switches and wireless security; (4) Designing and implementing Lan/Wan/Security; (5) Providing support, maintenance and resolution of all service center tickets; (6) Implementing and maintaining network security; (7) Maintaining current inventories supporting 100 locations with vendors; (8) Performing strategy and planning; (9) Analyzing trends of utilization and growth; (10) Building, maintaining and auditing networks; (11) Providing documentation as confirmation process, service records and inventories. Required: 5 years network architecture. Strong experience in building, supporting integrity and stability of a 100 location network. Supporting a Cisco environment including routers, switches, voice, and wireless security. Familiar with design and implementation of Lan/Wan. Knowledge of Outsourcing experience. LKW 2331 Service Center Manager Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Managing a 24x7 service center; (2) Driving performance against SLA’s; (3) Implementing service delivery and supporting requirements; (4) Managing company planning, maintenance; and monitoring; (5) Supporting IT infrastructure, end users, devices, servers, Lan/Wan, and Storage; (6) Supporting Email, video conferencing, T.C. and voice services; (7) Assuring infrastructure quality by monitoring data center; (8) Monitoring systems and service delivery to end users including project management and deadlines; (9) Implementing ITIL; (10) Conducting QC & System performance; (11) Manage Vendor relationships; (12) Mentoring and developing strategic vision and customer satisfaction. Required: 7 years hands on infrastructure management support. Strong management skills within complex 24/7 customer service center. Strong/Current implementation ITIL experience. Project Management experience. Strong Windows support, server support, Exchange, Outlook, Active Directory, and Desktop tools. Assist in supporting Citrix. Supporting Cisco Network, routers, switches, IPT, IPCC, telecommunications, VoiP, and Lan/Wan LKW 2330 Service Center Analyst Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Recording problems called in to service center; (2) Provide resolutions to customers; (3) Troubleshooting/supporting metric reporting to call tracking; (4) Escalating customer issues to 2 and 3 support teams; (5) Working for smooth delivery of solutions; (6) Monitoring AS/400 jobs in advanced job scheduler; (7) Providing Tier 1 support for Citrix, PC software, and Desktop/Laptop hardware. (8) Providing Tier 1 for network and monitoring AS/400 jobs scheduler software. Required: 2 years monitoring jobs on AS/400 system. Must have done Project management. Must have Active Directory, Outlook, Exchange, Ethernet, Networking, and VPN experience. Must have managed multiple projects. Must be able to work shifts. Must have experience with Tier 1 and 2 problem resolutions. LKW 2328 Programmer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Developing edit modules to validate data entry; (2) Developing build units to create EDI files in the ANSI X12 format; (3) Developing parsing routines to translate text reports into a SQL database; (4) Working with various communication protocols to automate sending and receiving of EDI files; (5) Troubleshooting and resolving issues in existing payer connections; (6) Updating existing code to work with new production functionality and transition to new C# code base; (7) Working closely with other departments as a technical resource in resolving customer support issues. REQUIRED: 2 years STRONG/CURRENT programming in C# or VB.Net or Delphi. Good programming experience with T-SQL (Transact SQL). Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. MUST have good communication and interpersonal skills. LKW 2327 JAVA JBOSS Portal Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Designing, developing, and deploying enterprise portals utilizing JBoss Portal; (2) Enhancing features of existing applications; (3) Managing portal sites that provide enterprise level web solutions to internal and external organizations; (4) Researching, coordinating, and recommending options for portal site design and implementation; (5) Translating business requirements into technical specs; (6) Working closely with business analysts to translate ideas into real world solutions; (7) Planning and performing system Integration testing; (8) Performing coding and unit testing of software projects; (9) Assisting in setting design and standards; (10) Active participation in code reviews; (11) Debugging and maintaining existing code; (12) Performance tuning of the application. REQUIRED: 5 years of Web UI software development to include STRONG design and implementation using JBoss Portal. STRONG experience designing and implementing web based applications based on server side UI frameworks such as Struts and JSF. STRONG understanding on frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. STRONG experience in Web services, SOAP, XHTML, XSLT, XML and OOAD using UML. STRONG with Oracle RDBMS, SQL, JDBC, SQL tuning. STRONG experience with Open Source and Open Source standards in solutions. STRONG experience implementing Enterprise Content Management Systems. STRONG AJAX programming experience to include developing web portals. MUST have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. LKW 2326 Core Java Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Working closely with multiple groups and individuals in the exciting world of global investment trading where technology is the glue that allows professionals to succeed; (2) Designing, developing, and maintaining databases, reporting, and analysis; (3) Proactively analyzing and transforming data into usable and actionable information. REQUIRED: MUST have a verifiable undergraduate degree from an above average academic institution with an excellent GPA. 2 years of STRONG/CORE Java development, SQL or T-SQL. STRONG/CURRENT experience working with large data sets. MUST have a STRONG/CURRENT mathematical and statistical background. MUST have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. LKW 2325 Business Analyst DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Providing assistance on critical customer facing initiatives for the stable, successful, and growing global organization; (2) Measuring project initiative progress; (3) Developing media based presentations and presentation materials; (3) Organizing and planning customer facing presentation meetings; (4) Conducting data analysis. REQUIRED: MUST have a verifiable undergraduate degree. MUST have at least 2 years of STRONG/CURRENT MS PowerPoint and MS Excel experience developing high quality and high content presentations that are customer facing. MUST have 2 years of industry experience in the brokerage or trading or investment industry. MUST also have experience working for a consulting or professional services firm. MUST have excellent communication and interpersonal and organizational skills. MUST have STRONG quantitative, analytical, and problem solving skills. LKW 2324 Programmer Programmer Analyst DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Full Systems Life Cycle programming in C#, C++, .NET, ASP, MS SQL Server to include design, analysis, programming, testing, debugging, documentation, and end-user; (2) Providing support of global, leading edge, state of the art, complex, mission critical applications. REQUIRED: 2 years STRONG/CURRENT C#, .NET, ASP, MS SQL Server programming of complex, mission-critical applications. Willingness to do maintenance programming and perform support (troubleshooting through resolution). MUST have EXCELLENT communication and interpersonal skills. MUST be able to work in a fast paced, business driven, complex environment. MUST have a proven background working in a customer facing environment. LKW 2319 Senior Developer Lead Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Full Systems Life Cycle programming in C#, C++, MS SQL Server to include design, analysis, programming, testing, debugging, documentation, and end-user; (2) Providing support of global, leading edge, state of the art, complex, mission critical applications. REQUIRED: 3 years STRONG/CURRENT C#, or C++, Matlab, MS SQL Server programming of complex, mission-critical applications. STRONG/CURRENT systems analysis, design, and documentation skills. MUST have EXCELLENT communication and interpersonal skills. MUST be able to work in a fast paced, business driven, complex environment. MUST have a proven background working in a customer facing environment. LKW 2307 Developer Senior Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) FSLC development of complex and mission critical SOA web based solutions; (2) Enhancing existing applications and troubleshooting through resolution of technical issues and problems; (3) Learning new and emerging technology in this cutting edge and consistently updated technical environment; (4) Assisting less technical staff with improving their knowledge and filling their knowledge gaps. REQUIRED: 2 years of SOLID and CURRENT CORE Java multi-threaded FSLC (system analysis, design, development, implementation, documentation, and testing) development with STRONG/CURRENT Oracle and SQL to include complex multi-table structures, and being able to performance tune queries to run efficiently. MUST have mastered object oriented concepts, be proficient in writing optimized SQL, and have STRONG JDBC developer skills to develop and maintain batch processes. Development MUST be in a UNIX environment. LKW 2306 C# Architect DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) C# architecture of complex, state of the art, mission-critical trading and non-trading applications for this successful, stable, and progressive organization; (2) Driving enhanced usability and reliability into the development process; (3) Providing strong design, analytical input, and creativity into the full development life cycle; (4) Working extremely closely with investment traders and analysts to create robust applications and redesign database and reporting infrastructure. REQUIRED: 7 years of STRONG FSLCD C#/.NET 2.0 and 3.5 programming skills with STRONG experience with reusable components. MUST have STRONG T-SQL programming skills. STRONG MS SQL Server 7.0 and 2005 and STRONG experience with large distributed database systems. STRONG understanding of client/server concepts. MUST have strong attention to detail, be highly analytical, and be able to work well with a diverse group of individuals in a fast paced environment. Pluses: UI design. Low level understanding of C# performance characteristics. LKW 2301 Business Intelligence Analyst Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Being the BI expert and delivering the best roadmaps; (2) Confer with business partners; (3) Evaluate business requirements;(4) Guide the business; (5) Lead delivery of technical design; (6) Provide maintenance, support, and documentation; (7) Provide user training material. Required: 2 years developing BI solutions. 2 years developing BI designs. STRONG/CURRENT OLAP, Dashboards, and Metadata project management. STRONG/CURRENT structured SDLC methods dealing with data warehousing and data modeling methodology. STRONG experience with ETL processes and concepts. LKW 2300 Software Developer/Sr. Software Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Doing sophisticated and complex programming and development of state of the art, mission-critical, real-time based solutions in this world-class, global, successful, and stable organization; (2) Working closely with financial traders and other technical staff in the development of extremely critical and sophisticated solutions; (3) Researching needs, trends, capabilities, and identifying new software features and functionality to bring to market; (4) Developing design documents; (5) Developing test scenarios and resolving programming bugs and inefficient code; (6) Troubleshooting through resolution of technical issues. REQUIRED: MUST have a VERIFIABLE undergraduate degree from an excellent academic institution with a VERIFIABLE GPA of 3.5 or higher. THIS IS NOT A FLEXIBLE REQUIREMENT. MUST have 2 OR MORE years experience in software development of ROBUST and SOPHISTICATED and MISSION-CRITICAL solutions in C# and the .NET framework combined with STRONG and CURRENT C++ or JAVA. MUST have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a passion and zest for personal growth and development, learning, and advancing your skill and knowledge on a consistent and regular basis. Pluses: Multithreaded applications. Real time or near real time application development. Programming in the brokerage, trading, or investment industry. LKW 2294 Product Development Executive DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Software product and technology solution planning, delivery, and management for a global customer base of investment and trading organizations; (2) Designing and developing strategy for future product and service offerings; (3) Working closely with senior executive management focused on short/long term business development opportunities, product development opportunities, and product development plans; (4) Working closely with sales and marketing teams to assess market opportunities, calculate revenue opportunities, manage product launches, and target market and product campaigns; (5) Working closely with the technology organization to manage the product development lifecycle; (6) Working closely with customer service and support teams to understand issues related to product and service offerings while designing enhancements to enrich the overall customer experience; (7) Leveraging and expanding software and services offering to a global audience in broad based and niche oriented markets; (8) Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) both internally within the organization and externally to the industry and marketplace. REQUIRED: Must have a verifiable undergraduate degree. There is a strong preference for candidates with a finance or technology focused MBA. MUST have a MINIMUM of 10 years of direct responsibility for managing/bringing investment/trading software products and services to market in the investment and trading industry, as the head of product development & management. MUST currently be directly responsible for bringing investment/trading software and technology services to market focused on the global trading and investment industry. MUST currently be located in the Chicago area marketplace and have EXPERT level understanding of the electronic trading industry to include: Futures and Options, Equities and FX, service providers, order routing systems, market data systems, matching engines, and clearing/settlement systems and processes. MUST have SUPERB external customer orientation and excellent organizational, communication, interpersonal and team building skills. MUST be proficient at establishing a software product roadmap and identifying future trends and opportunities for bringing software and services to market. Personality: Organized and detail oriented. Passionate about electronic trading. Takes ownership and accountability with a smile. Manages and leads others while being a strong motivator. Leads by example. Able to handle pressure and stress of the trading and software industry and thrives on it. Has strong character and a track record demonstrating integrity. LKW 2293 Lead Engineer Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Project planning, staff assignments, and setting priorities; (2) Working within a complex environment using application servers and portal technology; (3) Oversee and grow projects; (4) Lead SDLC within the SharePoint/Moss environment; (5) Lead implementation of 3rd party web products/services; (6) Create and execute project work plans; (7) Doing implementations within a content management system; (8) Develop solution architecture design and development; (9) Developing designs, coding and testing solutions. Required: Expert SharePoint/Moss experience. STRONG management/supervisory experience. Must have dealt with the user community defining requirements. Must have BA experience. Must have STRONG/CURRENT .NET framework, ASP.NET, and Windows Workflow foundation. Strong complex SDLC and web parts experience. LKW 2290 Developer/Sr. Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) FSLC development of complex and mission critical SOA web based solutions; (2) Enhancing existing applications and troubleshooting through resolution of technical issues and problems; (3) Learning new and emerging technology in this cutting edge and consistently updated technical environment; (4) Assisting less technical staff with improving their knowledge and filling their knowledge gaps. REQUIRED: 2 years of SOLID and CURRENT CORE Java FSLC (system analysis, design, development, implementation, documentation, and testing) development with STRONG/CURRENT Oracle and SQL to include complex multi-table structures, and being able to performance tune queries to run efficiently. MUST have mastered object oriented concepts, be proficient in writing optimized SQL, and have STRONG JDBC developer skills to develop and maintain batch processes. Development MUST be in a LINUX environment. Personality traits: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with excellent end user ability. Self motivated with ability and desire to take the ball and run with it when necessary. Pluses: Open source libraries (i.e. Log4j, JUnit, Ant, UC4 and Apache Commons); Maven; Bamboo; Spring; DB2; Struts; Clearcase; Syncsort; DMEExpress. LKW 2288 Developer/Senior Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Designing, developing, documenting, testing, and maintaining .Net Winforms applications; (2) Planning, designing and programming database functionality using MS SQL Server; (3) Planning, designing, and programming user interfaces; (4) Working closely with product management to derive requirements from customer use scenarios, determining the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints, and consulting engineering staff to evaluate the interface between hardware and software; (5) Investigating, identifying, and resolving code issues logged internally by QA teams and externally by clients through technical support; (6) Providing regular status reports on coding progress, troubleshooting analysis, documentation and testing of products to team lead as necessary; (7) Implementing design specifications, documenting design modifications, and unit testing. REQUIRED: A VERIFIABLE undergraduate degree is a MUST. MUST HAVE EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS—written and verbal---and solid ability to have in depth conversations with all types of customers. MUST have 3-5 years of STRONG/CURRENT FSLC (Full Systems Life Cycle) programming, Object Oriented Programming, C#, ASP.NET, Winforms, Linux, GUI design, MS SQL Server. MUST have excellent hands on experience and foundational knowledge of the full software development lifecycle process. MUST be able to clearly demonstrate knowledge of the software development lifecycle and various methodologies (waterfall, SCRUM, Agile, RUP). MUST have proven ability to troubleshoot issues and resolve quickly. MUST have strong problem solving, data analysis, design, and testing skills. MUST have ability to lead smaller development units and plan, implement, and execute on software designs. MUST have detailed knowledge of various browser capabilities. MUST have good understanding of databases, tools, and techniques used for object to relational mapping, and experience in performance tuning. MUST have good experience writing technical specifications and system design documents. Personality traits required: Passionate about software engineering; Outgoing, articulate, and well spoken; Action oriented, enthusiastic, decisive, with willingness to jump in and take a lead role when opportunity presents itself; Able to work cohesively within a team environment and lead functional areas within a product development environment. PLUSES: Enterprise software development; Development of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) software; Microsoft Certified Professionals or Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCAD or MCSD). LKW 2287 Developer Sr. Developer DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Performing FSLC embedded C development and Linux kernel programming; (2) Working closely with a myriad of entities including other technical groups, customers, third party organizations, business partners in delivering quality solutions to the marketplace on time, and meeting and/or exceeding expectations; (3) Performing strong troubleshooting through resolution of technical issues in an effort to problem solve software issues; (4) Testing and debugging of code; (5) Taking on a leadership role where required and able, and helping team mates with less skill fill in knowledge gaps and improve performance. REQUIRED: 3 years STRONG and CURRENT FULL SDLC programming and design experience using embedded C and/or C++ and Linux. MUST have STRONG experience developing and debugging software that runs in both ring0 and ring3.
Ability to work cohesively within a team environment and lead
functional areas within a product. MUST have a STRONG understanding of databases, tools, and techniques used for object to relational mapping.
Personality: Must be a team player and enjoy doing what it takes to get the job done. Must have good communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Must be action focused and have ability to be decisive and take the ball and run with it to ensure deliverable commitments are met. LKW 2284 Organizational Development Leader Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Establishing formula career succession planning for the organizational enterprise; (2) Providing guidance to executive and middle management with regards to talent management, and succession planning; (3) Developing a formal succession planning methodology, process, and orientation; (4) Leading staff skill development strategies, programs, and process as well as necessary metric points to measure success and allow for ongoing process improvement; (5) Acting as the organizational talent development and succession planning evangelist. Required: Must have an undergraduate degree. 5 years experience of leading GLOBAL talent management process from origination to on boarding, and 5 years experience of designing and developing GLOBAL talent development “best practices”. 5 years managing/identifying GLOBAL strategic organizational development priority projects LKW 2283 Investment Risk Analyst DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Evaluating and modeling counter party investment risk exposures; (2) Designing and developing tools to monitor P/L, value-at-risk, stress testing, and portfolio analytics; (3) Performing qualitative and quantitative analysis to determine market, credit, and operational risk; (4) Maintaining and improving the daily operational and risk management processes; (5) Collaborating closely with the organization’s technology group to implement systems enhancements supporting new margining techniques and business growth; (6) Working closely with the end user community, third party business partners, and clients. REQUIRED: MUST have a verifiable undergraduate degree in Economics, Business Administration, or similar. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT quantitative analysis skills as a result of working in a quant analyst role in the investment futures industry for a minimum of the last two years. MUST have excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal, and organizational skills. LKW 2282 Manager, Quantitative Analysis DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Managing and guiding a team in the evaluation and modeling of counter party risk exposure; (2) Overseeing and managing quantitative projects related to monitoring P/L, value-at-risk, stress testing, back-testing, and portfolio analytics; (3) Managing and leading efforts to develop quantitative approaches to statistical margin methodologies to appropriately collateralize exposure; (4) Providing thought leadership focused on improving portfolio margin techniques through different quantitative approaches; (5) Designing and developing strategies to perform back-testing of margin methodologies to ensure accuracy of different models, and effectiveness of option pricing models and Monte Carlo simulation methodologies; (6) Maintaining and improving the daily risk management processes; (7) Collaborating closely with the organization’s technology group to implement systems enhancements supporting new margining techniques and continued business growth. REQUIRED: MUST have an MBA in finance, economics, advanced mathematics, or similar. MUST currently be in a management or leadership role with responsibility for managing or leading quantitative analysts in the trading and investment industry. MUST have at least 5 years of work experience in the trading and investment industry. MUST have advanced knowledge of multivariate statistics. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT knowledge of how to price and value complex financial instruments. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT experience working with and managing large and complex data sets. MUST have STRONG C++ and Matlab. MUST have EXCELLENT communication (verbal and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills. LKW 2281 Quant Analyst DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Evaluating and modeling counter party clearing house risk and/or liability exposure; (2) Designing and developing tools to monitor P/L, value-at-risk, stress testing, back-testing, and portfolio analytics; (3) Performing quantitative and qualitative analysis to assess market, credit, and clearing house operational risk; (4) Developing quantitative approaches to statistical margin methodologies to appropriately collateralize clearing house exposure; (5) Developing strategies and performing back-testing of margin methodologies to ensure adequacy of different models and assumptions using option pricing models and Monte Carlo simulation methodologies; (6) Maintaining and improving daily risk management processes under which the organization’s clearing house operates; (7) Collaborating with the clearing organization’s technology group to implement system enhancements supporting new margining techniques and business expansion.
REQUIRED: *****Recent college graduates with no work experience will NOT be considered. MUST have competed a verifiable MS in finance, economics, advanced mathematics, or similar degree. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT C++ or Matlab programming experience. MUST have EXCELLENT communication (written and verbal), interpersonal, and relationship building skills. MUST be currently located in the Chicago city or suburban area. Candidates from outside of the Chicago city or suburban area will NOT be considered. LKW 2271 Linux Admin/Sr. Linux Admin DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Linux and Microsoft Windows administration to include performance monitoring, performance tuning, installs, upgrades, backups, recoveries, etc.; (2) Design and implementation of new hardware and software as needed; (3) Linux and MS Windows Active Directory authentication integration; (4) Troubleshooting through resolution of advanced TCP/IP and multicast issues; (5) Datacenter management; (6) Support and on call rotation as necessary. REQUIRED: 5 years of STRONG/CURRENT LINUX administration to include performance monitoring, performance tuning, installs, upgrades, backups, recoveries in an advanced TCP/IP multicast environment. STRONG/CURRENT Linux architecture, deployment, networking, security hardening, troubleshooting and production operations. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT knowledge of real-time operating system concepts and implementations and STRONG/CURRENT SMTP, DHCP, DNS, NIS, LDAP, CIFS, NFS, Postfix, BIND, SNMP, and Linux system security. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT packet sniffing applications (snort, wireshark, netmon, etc), Linux and AD authentication integration (winbind, Kerberos, LDAP, SFU), system configuration experience (Altiris, Puppet or CFEngine), Kickstart procedures, and be FLUENT in Perl and shell scripting, with experience implementing automation and monitoring using shell scripting and other related tools. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT system monitoring experience (SNMP, Nagios, Cacti, HP OpenView, Dell Open Manage, etc), strong Linux/Unix networking, bug tracking systems, and STRONG/CURRENT experience managing a build environment, including familiarity with source control and standard build tools (make, ant). An undergraduate degree in Computer Science or similar is extremely highly preferred. MUST have excellent communication, interpersonal, organization, and documentation skills. Pluses: VB, VBA, .Net, C# and/or Access programming. MS Windows 2003 and/or 2008 administration. CISCO. IOS. Veritas Netbackup. VMWare infrastructure. RHCT. RHCE. MCSE. CCNA. LKW 2270 SHAREPOINT Consultant Duties: You will be responsible for: (1) Participating in design and development; (2) Customizing and integrating of enterprise solutions; (3) Involved in collaboration and portals; (4) Involved in Enterprise search and content management; (5) Participating in the Business Process and Forms and Business Intelligence. Required: 2 years SHAREPOINT development, configuration and implementation STRONG/CURRENT involvement on Enterprise initiatives STRONG/CURRENT understanding of business workflows with SHAREPOINT 2007, services 3.0 and designer 2007 STRONG/CURRENT knowledge of collaboration, portals, Enterprise Search STRONG/CURRENT knowledge of Enterprise Content Management, business processes, forms, templates and security STRONG/CURRENT hands on web development, server installation, development in XML and SQL Server LKW 2269 Senior Medical Content Leader DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Providing CONTENT leadership in the application, revision, and new development of clinical content for medical software products with particular focus on forms and field design, and notes documentation forms; (2) Significant interface and engagement with customers (physicians and medical staff) to develop and revise clinical content that meets/exceeds the needs of the user community; (3) Design and development of best practices and guidelines for software product content needs; (4) Conducting final clinical editing of updates and new content releases; (5) Providing content application consulting support including content editing and product demonstrations to client organizations; (6) Providing user feedback to internal content and application development teams for prioritization in future releases; (7) Supporting client training and workflow analyses; (8) Performing rigorous QA testing to ensure the highest quality of content and conducting clinical acceptance testing of new software releases; (9) Active participation and leadership in advisory boards; (10) Providing key clinical and expert user participation in advanced training curriculum design and revisions and serving as an instructor as necessary; (11) Collaborating in product and content tools design sessions with product development teams; (12) Performing clinical workflow consulting support internally and for client organizations. REQUIRED: MUST have a medical degree such as MD, DO, PA, NP, or midwife degree or necessary work related experience in the medical/hospital industry to demonstrate adequate medical and hospital business process and information workflow. MUST have at least 3 years in a clinical physician facing environment. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT or RECENT clinical content development and/or STRONG experience with clinical/medical provider practices. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT or RECENT experience in managing projects that are delivered on time and meet expectations. MUST have STRONG desire to work in a close team/collaborative setting. MUST have EXCELLENT communication, listening, presentation, and organizational skills. MUST have a high-energy and others focused personality with extraordinary relationship building skills at all levels of an organization. MUST be able to travel as needed. Pluses: Hospital or clinical application software experience. LKW 2259 Credit Risk Analyst/Sr. Credit Risk Analyst DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Analyzing and monitoring banking and credit exposure and risk; (2) Leading the effort to establish banking and credit policy with regards to minimizing exposure and risk; (3) Maintaining and developing relationships with the organization’s line of credit banks and other capital partners; (4) Monitoring risk and exposure control compliance; (5) Evaluating new forms of collateral and new methods of collateralizing credit and risk exposure; (6) Creating logical frameworks for limits for acceptable collateral; (7) Assisting in the evaluation of risk with new banking and credit and OTC products; (8) Leading a broad range of projects focused on new product initiatives, new partnership proposals, and/or systems development. REQUIRED: An undergraduate degree is required with a strong preference for an MBA or related Masters degree. STRONG/CURRENT experience with your core responsibility being acting in the capacity of a credit and OTC analyst analyzing, monitoring, and identifying credit and banking risk, programs and procedures to manage that risk, and performing OTC credit rate risk management quantitative analysis and problem solving. MUST have EXCELLENT communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. MUST have EXCELLENT project leading and project managing experience with regards to critical initiatives. Pluses: Futures, options, derivatives industry experience. LKW 2258 Quantitative Analyst DUTIES: You will be responsible for: (1) Evaluating and modeling credit and interest rate risk and liability with regards to OTC trading; (2) Managing projects to develop tools to monitor profit and loss, determine value at risk, perform stress testing, and conduct portfolio analytics; (3) Performing quantitative and qualitative analysis to assess market, credit and operational risk; (4) Developing quantitative approaches to statistical margin methodologies to appropriately collateralize exposures; (5) Maintaining and improving the daily operational and risk management processes; (6) Close interaction with the necessary organizational departments to implement systems enhancements supporting new margining techniques and expansion of business. REQUIRED: MUST have an MBA or MS in advanced mathematics, economics, or finance, or similar. MUST have at least 3 years STRONG/CURRENT experience performing as a credit and interest rate QUANTITATIVE ANALYST as your core job responsibility in the OTC marketplace. 3 years of STRONG/CURRENT OTC experience is a MUST. MUST have STRONG/CURRENT experience with C++ and Matlab. MUST have superb communication and interpersonal skills. MUST be able/willing to live/work in Chicago or New York, and if not located there, be able to begin work within two-three weeks of a job offer. MUST have experience leading and/or project managing initiatives and projects. Pluses: Futures and/or options trading industry experience. |
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