I usually consult out of my home office in Sedona Arizona but I also enjoy traveling to customer sites. I offer consulting services and my rates are negotiable. My fees are $40/hour for working remotely from my home office and $80/hour (plus expenses) when working on site. I offer extra discounts for work for charities and on open source projects.

I also offer a 10% discount when we agree to use my standard MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT for my consulting services. I like to sign this agreement for future work with (potentially) new customers as soon as we start talking. This agreement is non-binding for committing to hiring me for consulting tasks and it makes it very quick and easy in the future to hire me for both small and large tasks because you can email a request for work, I can respond with an estimate, and then you can approve specific new tasks, also via email. I tend to work on small tasks for the same customers over long periods of time and having a MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT in place saves both my time and my customers' time.

I am also happy to negotiate a custom contract with you.

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I have over 25 years programming experience and my customers have been pleased with both how efficiently I work and the quality of my work. Printable copy of my resume

Contact and billing information

Payment is expected on receipt of invoice unless other arrangements have been made. New customers are asked to prepay for the first work task.

I can be reached at (928) 203-0146 and my email address is markw@markwatson.com.

I accept credit cards via the PayPal billing service via PayPal.

You may also pay me by check. My mailing address is:

Mark Watson
120 Farmer Brothers Drive
Sedona, Arizona 86336

Customer comments

"*Thank you* for your exceptionally hard and effective work. You definitely set an extraordinarily high standard for professionalism and productivity." - Alexandra Baehr, Senior Applications Developer, The University of Chicago

"Mark is a demo hacker god." - Ben Goertzel, Founder and CTO of Webmind Corporation.

"I selected Mark as a consultant to help kick-start our enterprise Web Services initiative. In the many months of working together I was continually impressed with his technical breadth, self-confidence, and ability to deliver precisely what he committed to, on time, every time." - Paul Morgan, CTO Lutris Corporation

Statement of limited liability

I always make my best effort when working for you. When you hire me to do design and/or development work for you, you agree to the following: The limit of my liability for the work that I do for you for a specific task is the fee for my consulting services for that specific task.

If requested, I will sign a non-disclosure agreement for customers. I always carefully protect the intellectual property of my customers: I never discuss customers work with anyone else and safeguard any customer working materials or other intellectual property. I offer a standard MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT for my consulting services (or supply your own).