I usually consult out of my home office in Sedona Arizona but I also enjoy traveling to customer sites. My hourly fees are $40/hour for working remotely from my home office and are $100/hour (plus travel expenses) when working on site. I offer discounts for work for charities and on open source projects.

I also offer a 12.5% discount using my "Express Development Plan" for projects that use my standard MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT and NDA for my consulting services and pay my consulting fees within seven days of delivery of work and invoice.

I am also happy to negotiate a custom contract with you. I understand that the simplified terms in my standard MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT and NDA may not be compatible with your company's requirements.

For new customers only: I prefer to perform an initial small project with new customers. Please contact me with a short "statement of work" and use my "Express Development Plan" - a good way for us to get to know each other. For new customers only, I ask for 20% of estimated cost (or $200, whichever is less) at the start of work on our first project.

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

Minimum billing for small projects: Small projects will be billed at a minimum of 1 hour per week, for any week during which I do any work on your project. Please consider this to be my minimum retainer fee. There is also a minimum daily time charge for 15 minutes a day for any day that I work on your project.

Contact and billing information

I can be reached at (928) 300-8542 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, the limit of my liability for the work that I do for you is the amount of the fee paid for my consulting services.

Software tools used for consulting jobs

Unless customers ask me to use alternative tools I prefer to use the following tools:

•   IntelliJ IDE
• Latex for all documentation
• PostgreSQL database server
• Linux for deployments