About Engine Room Apps
“Engine Room Apps are a pleasure to work with. They instill confidence in a friendly and open way.”
Amanda Finn, Marketing Manager, MDL Laser Systems, York
In 2004, Tobin Harris founded the company with the goal of tackling interesting and challenging software projects. Since then, he has worked for some amazing clients and developed relationships with some great people in the field.
Engine Room pulls together the best talent for each project to form a specialised virtual team. We provide excellent service with a personal touch and quality results.
Working With Engine Room
Engine Room prides itself in offering a positive and predictable experience to its clients. When we undertake a project for your business, you benefit from the following:
- Initial Q&A session
- Goal analysis workshop
- Solution proposal document
- Costs and timescales
- Access to our agile management suit (Target Process).
- Access to our collaboration suit (Basecamp).
- Bimonthly project reviews.
- 1 month post-launch assessment
- 6 month post-launch assessment
Tobin Harris
Tobin is the founder and co-director of Engine Room applications. He has experience with mobile, web and enterprise projects for both large and small organisations.
Tobin is a co-author of NHibernate in Action, published March 2009. He also frequently writes small articles about software development on his blog.
Chris Baxter
Chris is a co-director, with a particular focus on the iPhone and mobile side of the business. He has over 20 years of software development experience, and has a ton of experience in running agile projects and cutting .NET code. Chris is also a co-director of our sister company Gedgers, that focuses on lifestyle iPhone apps.
Lee Sommerville
Lee is our business manager and our front line for communications, marketing, account handling and project co-ordination. Having been responsible for large blue-chip companies in his past life, he now enjoys maintaining our high standards with our clients with a smile on his face.
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Liz Ball, Tony Pires, Bhanu Prassa and Karim Agha are all awesome on-hand colleagues who help us create great ideas.
