Projects

Listing several major milestones and noteworthy minor projects.


Major projects

2024 - 2025

Replatforming realization

In progress...

developmentbusinessmarketing
2024

Replatforming pitching

Pitching our strategy, vision and architecture around replatforming our website and ordering platforms to the board with a proof of concept made with Craft CMS and our refactored API. The pitch was versus an outsourced plan with Shopify.

developmentbusinessmarketing
2023

Integration Bloomreach CRM

Integration of Bloomreach CRM and migrating away from Selligent.

developmentmarketing
2023

Setting up hybrid cloud and partial migration to AWS

Migrated one of our customer facing applications to AWS. This application was handling over 20.000 orders per year and containing nearly 20 TB of images.

sysops
2021 - 2023

Rebuild internal ordermanagement platform

Complete rebuild of the internal order management system for automating our production and activities around the handling of this (such as fulfillment). It was built with NodeJS, React, and MSSQL, and handles over 500,000 orders per year.

development
2023

Optimization workflow in production

Optimizing a part of the production floor and the production processes through which 50,000 prints per day go in busy times with LEAN. The process became about 30 - 40% more efficient.

development
2022

Backup hardening

Separated our backup network from our main network and made it air-gapped. We now have a 3-2-1 backup strategy with Veeam and a remote repository.

sysops
2022

Network and backup hardening

Network hardening by means of segmentation using Palo Alto firewalls, Juniper switches and WIFI mesh network with Ubiquiti. Also hardened our backup with a remote repository (offsite backup).

sysops
2021

Exact integration

Complete rebuild of our invoicing and accounting system to integrate with Exact Online to streamline our financial processes and we migrated away from Accountview.

developmentbusiness
2021

Kamera Express datacenter

Setup a small datacenter for Kamera Expres for BI usecases using a Dell server, a Watchguard firewall and a Synology NAS together with rotating hard disks for airgap backups.

sysops
2021

Power BI

Implementing Power BI for data analysis and made the start to become a more data-driven organization.

developmentbusiness
2019 - 2020

On-premise datacenter migration

Migrated our on-premise datacenter to new hardware and implemented a 3-2-1 backup strategy using Veeam and rotating hard disks for the airgap backup.

sysops
2016 - 2017

Prints ordering platform v2

Complete rebuild of our custom build ordering platform for ordering photo prints and wall decoration via a webpage and via a REST API (for B2B usecases) in NodeJS, Redis, React and MongoDB.

development
2016

Noritsu automation and load balancing

Niche (unique) implementation giving us (to this day) a very competitive edge in the market and market leader in the printing of schoolphoto's in the Netherlands and Belgium. Competitors still work manually (USB sticks) making it impossible to compete with our speed and quality.

development
2012 - 2014

Profotosales v1

Launching and further developing the first version of the school photographers platform: Profotosales. With this we delivered our first SaaS solution to school photographers in the Netherlands and enabled them to sell their school photos online. Built in PHP and MySQL.

development

Minor noteworthy projects

2023CheckMK setup for monitoring our infrastructure and phasing out PA Server Monitor.
2022Trustpilot integration and custom workflow to collect NPS scores.
2022Ansible for Windows server update automation.
2021Focused on quality control for the output of our printer and laid down the foundation for our quality manager.
2021Jira for project management
2021Migrated our mailtool Emark to Selligent.
2020Zendesk integration and phasing out our custom ticketing platform.
2020Office 365 setup and migration from an on premise Exchange server.
2018GDPR and privacy compliance
2016Grad student mentoring who would become the core maintainer and developer for the second version of Profotosales.