We focus on web site infrastructure design, operations and management.
My base rate is US$325 per hour. I am willing to negotiate a daily, weekly, monthly or project based rate, but just know up front that the base rate is $325 per hour.
If you would like me to take a look at your problem, please feel free to contact me at inquiry@artific.com or +1 (347) 408-0372.
I focus on web site infrastructure design, operations and maintenance, site strategy, and “firefighting”. Call me in if you are:
These are the problems I focus on and have in–depth experience
resolving.
I focus on pragmatic solutions: yes, a fully-redundant set of paired data
centers may well be the best solution, but it may not be the most practical
solution if your site is down right now
.
If you need routine coding changes, routine application development, routine web site design: I'm not your guy.
My process is routine, I'm fairly certain anyone could mimic it:
As I wrote: that's a pretty routine process: triage, analyze, iterate through solutions. Pretty much any consultancy will sell you some variation on that process.
Experience. Not certifications. Not degrees. Not titles. Just raw, hard lessons–learned experience. Experience from three Olympic Games’ web sites. Experience from managing IBM's Corporate web presence for five years. Lessons learned from over ten years of designing, developing and managing high–profile web applications and sites.
Now, you could disregard this as an arrogant, self–serving pitch, and you would be partly right. You could hire, instead, a top–tier firm, with a project manager ($125/hr), two miscellaneous staff (@$125/hr each), and potentially every technical resource you are willing to pay for (@$65—$1000 / hr depending on the specific skill and years of experience).
The cost for me to walk in the door: $0 (well, plus reasonable travel expenses which we'd agree upon up front). The cost for the top-tier guys to walk in the door, potentially? Possibly also $0.00, but possibly, also, $4000 for one day.
In the end, we'll both give you potential solutions to your problem, quite possibly the same solution. It's up to you to decide what is the most practical, pragmatic, and applicable solution for your organization. It's up to you to decide how much your problem is costing your organization, and whether it should be solved at $375 per hour, or $500—$1000 per hour.
In the interim I'll be solving problems for someone else, potentially your competitors, for only $325 per hour.
If you would like me to take a look at your problem, please feel free to contact me at inquiry@artific.com or +1 (347) 408-0372.
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