Gibson Farmers Market POS Upgrade

One of the oldest servers running under the school of AG when I was onboarded was the Farmers Market point of sale system. Running on EOL hardware and out of compliance Microsoft software, the server, located in the Technology Services COLO was ready for a replacement.

After explaining the situation to the Farmers Market manager as well as the Dean of AG, I was given a budget, system requirements, and a time frame, and set to work getting bids from venders ensuring that all deliverables for the system were met.

After a few weeks of research and many vendor visits and bids, we settled on Revel Systems, a cloud based IOS iPad driven system that was also PCI security chip reader compliant. At the time there were no PCI compliant systems on campus. This would be the first one.

Working with both internal and external partners I set a project schedule and we pulled out all of the old equipment recycling any hardware where we could, and set about installing the new system and testing. Thanks to my department partners on the network engineering team as well as my own tech team and Revel Systems technical support, the system went in with no issues. We took the time to make sure everything was cable managed, cleanly installed and looked as good as the system performed. We trained the store manager on the system and answered anything else they needed.

The final result was a very robust system that gave the Farmers Market Manager options and scalability, as well as knowing they are running a PCI compliant system meeting the requirements of the Deans office, but security as well.

Proud to say I designed and implemented the first PCI compliant system on campus. We finished just in time for the heavy sweet corn season the market is know for.