Work - Bogdan Zamfir

Work

Projects and references, grouped in the three areas I work in. Some clients named, some kept anonymous for confidentiality.

What survives a decade

Long-lived business systems, products and frameworks. Several are still in production years after I built them.

Manag.Web - business-management platform for Romanian companies

My own invoicing, accounting and asset-management product, in production at several Romanian companies.

Business management (ERP)Live, multi-company

EZBid - catastrophe damage-appraisal software for dTailTech

Rebuilt an older DOS appraisal program as a Windows application - the tool appraisers use to estimate repair costs on property damaged by natural disasters.

Insurance / catastrophe claimsearly 2000sSold commercially for years

Bitpool - server backend and REST services for an IoT platform

Built the early server-side backend and REST services for Bitpool, now a commercial IoT and energy-data platform.

IoT / data platform2011-2012Now a commercial product

Jeeves CRM-ILM - a CRM for car dealerships

Developer of Jeeves CRM-ILM, a dealership CRM and internet-lead-management system, for a Chicago software company.

Automotive CRM2004-2012Sold to multiple dealerships

EconSeeds - business platform for a Dutch seed company

Built and hosted a multi-tier business application for EconSeeds, on Visual WebGui.

Business application (LOB)2008-2018Handed over to the client's developer

zwt - a reusable Visual WebGui application framework

Built a reusable Visual WebGui framework that line-of-business web apps are built on, used by my own projects and by other software houses.

Framework / platformAdopted by other software houses

TREDS - the turtle research database Pacific conservation programmes run themselves

Built and extended the Turtle Research and Monitoring Database System, installed and run by conservation programmes across the Pacific. 170 downloads in the thirteen months after release.

Conservation science2008-2009170 downloads in 13 months

CLIA - insurance claim-management application for Venuiti

Built an insurance claim-management application in C# on Visual WebGui for Venuiti Solutions.

Insurance claims2009

Visual WebGui line-of-business apps - AssurantieService, DSG

Layered C# / Visual WebGui business applications for Dutch clients, including an insurance-services platform.

Line-of-business web apps

The application side of the database boundary

Where the cause of a slow or wrong result sits in the application code rather than in the database: query plans, the ORM above them, and large migrations.

Fee-calculation performance on a high-volume public-sector platform

Fee calculation ran for tens of seconds on the heaviest records and blocked the UI. Measured 3.4x to 15.4x faster.

Public-sector platform3.4-15x faster

Migrating legacy systems into a platform that models the work differently

Close to two million records moved out of ten separate legacy systems, each from a different vendor with its own idea of what the data means. Getting the rows across is the easy part.

Data migration~2M records, 10 source systems

Business-intelligence dashboard for mid-market operations

A management dashboard that turns years of operational data into real-time financial-health, profitability and collections insight.

Business intelligenceIn development - validated on 3 business models

IUCN Red List - species-assessment data-entry system (SIS DEM)

Built and enhanced the data-entry module behind the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Scientific data2005-2008