Projects
Listing several major milestones and noteworthy minor projects.
Major projects
Replatforming realization
In progress...
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.
Integration Bloomreach CRM
Integration of Bloomreach CRM and migrating away from Selligent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Power BI
Implementing Power BI for data analysis and made the start to become a more data-driven organization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Minor noteworthy projects
2023 | CheckMK setup for monitoring our infrastructure and phasing out PA Server Monitor. |
2022 | Trustpilot integration and custom workflow to collect NPS scores. |
2022 | Ansible for Windows server update automation. |
2021 | Focused on quality control for the output of our printer and laid down the foundation for our quality manager. |
2021 | Jira for project management |
2021 | Migrated our mailtool Emark to Selligent. |
2020 | Zendesk integration and phasing out our custom ticketing platform. |
2020 | Office 365 setup and migration from an on premise Exchange server. |
2018 | GDPR and privacy compliance |
2016 | Grad student mentoring who would become the core maintainer and developer for the second version of Profotosales. |