Consulting & Training

We’re Hunter and Johnson, a boutique iPhone consultancy based in San Francisco who’ve been focused on iPhone apps since May 2008. We can help you create your iPhone app and make it a success – our services include iPhone app design, development, training, Facebook integration, and iPhone app marketing assistance. We have over 20 years of professional software development experience from our backgrounds with startups and consultancies, building web and client server apps for consumer, IT, and vertical markets. As we are now immersed in all things iPhone, we can guide you in all the iPhone technologies and the unique design and marketing considerations. We’re happy to take on your outsourced projects, or assist your in house team get up to speed with iPhone app development and marketing, so as our client you would have the flexibility to move iPhone projects between outsourced and in-house as needed. Check out our portfolio of iPhone apps to see what we can do.

You can reach us by emailing markj at markj dot net, and you can also find me at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markjamesjohnson.

Team Coaching and Training

The iPhone SDK, App Store, mobile user experience, Objective-C…, with so many new things to learn about, building an in-house iPhone team is a big challenge. We’d like to help you with training, coaching, and expertize on call for your developers, designers, and product managers. We can provide help with:

• Developer cross training to Cocoa Touch and Objective-C, using out proprietary developer training course.
• Development team coaching including design and code reviews, problem solving when they get stuck.
• Setting up all the accounts with Apple, certificates, provisioning.
• Project launch and planning.
• Marketing help, App Store specific marketing strategies, exploration of different revenue models.
• Facebook and Twitter integration.

Performance Engineering

We can help you solve software and system performance problems by bringing my extensive experience in Performance Engineering with web applications, mobile, client server, and other data processing systems.

• Diagnosis of performance problems, in particular in systems using:
  • Java and J2EE, Weblogic and other application servers
  • Oracle and MySQL
  • Solaris, Linux, and Windows
  • Javascript and AJAX architectures, PHP and other dynamic web languages
• Increase Performance and Scalability through:
  • Software improvements
  • Database tuning
  • System architecture and hardware upgrades
• Performance Engineering training
• Architecture Review
• Performance Testing & Analysis
• Capacity Planning
• High availability and Disaster Recovery Planning