Career and Freelance Work with Progent Work for EXperienced Network Engineers, Helpdesk Support Specialists, Network Security Consultants, and Application Programmers
One of America's premiere computer consultant firms for small business systems, Progent manages a large team of certified service professionals who concentrate on mainstream IT areas including:
Microsoft Windows technology
Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, plus Voice over IP and Virtual Private Network solutions
Enterprise security consulting
Advanced system architecture
Off-site IT support and system administration
Our Experts Group, which contracts freelance experts qualified and coordinated by Progent, provides highly specialized skills covering a broad range of critical software applications and networking technologies such as:
Macintosh integration and programs
Expertise for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management consulting
Mission-critical and specialized program help
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project management outsourcing
Custom program design and integration
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and customer information portal design and integration
DBM support and efficiency consulting
Management information consulting
Telecommunications architecture consulting
Creative models for attracting customers, delivering support, creating a dynamic working environment, and offering generous profit sharing have allowed us to be among the fastest expanding and best respected Microsoft Gold Partners consulting organizations in the United States and to build a worldwide presence for providing remote IT service. If you are a certified IT support professional or information technology consultant with a drive for a client success and excellent communication skills, you should consider Progent a chance for increasing your professional skills, living a more rewarding lifestyle, and achieving economic success.
Learn Additional Information About Jobs with Progent
Follow these links to find out more details about Progent's work opportunities, company philosophy, operational conditions, compensation structure, and benefits packages:
Consulting Careers at Progent
We are seeking a variety of on-staff employees such as solutions-driven Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, and MCP computer engineers; connectivity experts who have Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA credentials; and specialists in advanced system design with backgrounds in mobile access, wireless networking, high-availability environments, business continuity planning, data protection, and VMware technology. We are also hiring workstation support experts, remote troubleshooting professionals, and CISA certified security consultants. We are also seeking experienced managers and administrators who can operate efficiently in our high-growth, virtual office environment. Find out additional information concerning full-time consulting work at Progent by referring to Consulting Careers at Progent.
Contracting Work with Progent
Progent works with independent consultants with proven knowledge and field experience in important IT areas outside Progent's primary technical focus. Our Experts Team hires contractors who can provide advice and programming services for line-of-business applications that include Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; possess specialized expertise with popular platforms such as Linux, Macintosh, or Solaris, or offer world-class skills in areas like telecommunications, web development, Electronic Data Interchange, eCommerce, or dbm programming. Independent consultants certified by Progent cooperate with our full-time professionals to provide end-to-end IT services for small company networks. In order to learn more information about freelance opportunities with our Experts Team, visit Contracting Jobs with Progent.
How We Are Exceptional
We have been able to attract the top professional talent by being unique. Providing an innovative mix of entrepreneurial drive, insistence on customer satisfaction, utilization of state-of-the-art technology, plus a flexible work model that offers life-style choices for Progent's team members, Progent offers a dynamic environment for select consultants who posses a desire for quickly improving their technical abilities to create real-world solutions for a range of organizations and network environments. Learn additional details concerning reasons we are unique by going to Ways That Progent Is Different.
Our Virtual Office Infrastructure
Our virtual office network incorporates sophisticated technical tools that support off-site access, wireless connectivity, convenient access to Progent's support databases, and close collaboration with mobile colleagues to allow you to handle business-critical network problems. Our virtual office model frees you to focus on providing service rather than dealing with traffic and lets you build lasting customer relationships by permitting you to come up with fast, effective, and affordable solutions. To find out more details concerning Progent's virtual office work environment, visit Progent virtual Office Business Model.
Compensation Model and Benefit Packages
Our compensation model is based on revenue sharing. The money you earn is entirely tied to the revenue you contribute. Consultants have the option of focusing on life style and choosing to work at a more relaxed pace, using our flexible schedule to make time for personal pursuits, or you can choose to make considerable income by hard effort and lots of consulting time. Progent also provides complete family health coverage plus numerous other benefits. Find out additional details about Progent's compensation and benefit programs by visiting Our Compensation Model and Benefit Programs.
Employment at Progent Q&A
For answers to frequent enquiries about becoming employed by Progent, see Jobs at Progent FAQs.
This is a list of our present job openings:
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Operations Administrator Position
Progent is seeking a motivated individual for the home-office position of Operations Administrator to help the Director of Operations with the daily management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in handling expense and asset management functions for a small, quickly growing business.
Information Technology Recruitment Manager Job
Progent has an opening for an experienced administrator for recruiting consultants to work with Progent's group of network support engineers who provide information technology outsourcing and engineering support assistance to customers worldwide.
Technical Response Center Coordinator Position
Progent has a position for a talented individual for the job of Technical Response Center (TRC) Coordinator working with an innovative technical services business in a dynamic environment. The Technical Response Center Coordinator is to be the first point of contact for incoming TRC and Main number calls and must project a professional and sympathetic demeanor in the initiation of Urgent Services.
Customer Services Administrative Assistant Position
The Customer Services Administrative Assistant helps the Director of Customer Services in the day-to-day operations of Progent’s Customer Care initiatives, which includes tasks such as First Service follow up interviews. The Customer Services Administrative Assistant carries out a variety of administrative responsibilities for the Director of Customer Services to make sure Progent delivers the best possible customer care.
Business Development Representative Positions
The Business Development Representative is a senior level sales manager charged with selling Progent's wide array of network outsourcing and support services and acting as the front-line customer interface. The Business Development Representative is a member of the management group, operating in sync with the President and Directors and Managers to make sure that corporate goals are met and that the highest level of services are provided to our customers.
Senior IT Consultant, MCSE Jobs
Progent is seeking an experienced, Microsoft-certified support engineer to join Progent's full-time team of network experts. You must have people skills plus network expertise and must be solutions driven.
Desktop Support Expert Jobs
Progent is looking for a Desktop Engineer to work with Progent customers to support all users of desktop and notebook computers powered by MS Windows 2K, Vista, and Windows XP technology. Work collaboratively with client's management or IT group or under the direction of a Progent Senior Consultant to support the customer's employees.
Senior Remote Support Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Expert to assist a variety of Progent's customers to manage and support IT systems off-site, using state-of-the-art tools including MS Windows 2000/2003 and Microsoft's .NET product family.
Senior Remote Technical Support Engineer Positions in Australia
Progent is seeking a Senior Online Network Support Expert in Australia to help a variety of international customers to manage and troubleshoot IT systems via telephone or remote connections.
Senior Cisco Consultant Job
Progent is looking for a Certified Cisco Consultant with Cisco CCIE or CCNP credentials to join Progent's staff of professionals to help clients to design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot small business networks based on Cisco technology.
Senior Security Consultant Positions
Progent is looking for a Certified Security Consultant with CISSP, CISM, or CISA or similar security certification to work with Progent's staff of experts to offer small businesses comprehensive security services including network security evaluation, security testing, security planning, network monitoring, security architecture, access control solutions consulting, operations security, and business continuity planning.
If you want to enquire about any job shown above, please send your background information to jobs@progent.com. Be sure to copy the code numbers of the jobs of interest.
More Information Concerning Work with Us
Fulltime Jobs for Network Consultants, Computer Service Technicians, Security Consultants, and Online Help Professionals Progent is seeking to find staff-level, results-driven Microsoft accredited consultants with MCSE or MCP certification; Cisco accredited system engineers with Cisco CCIE or CCNP credentials; security professionals with CISSP or comparable security certification; and high-end system design experts with a background in mobile solutions, wireless connectivity, high availability, disaster recovery, data preservation, and virtual servers. Progent also is looking for professionals to join our staff of helpdesk service specialists and off-site troubleshooting professionals. Also, We are looking for experienced managers able to perform effectively in Progent's high-growth, virtual office environment.
By supporting a staff of talented and motivated professionals, delivering attentive client care, and offering a strong results-focused pricing model, We have been able to expand our client list dramatically while providing professional support to hundreds of businesses in the San Francisco area and throughout the United States. A sophisticated virtual office network, a shared knowledge database, and a group strategy for problem resolution have helped Progent to retain a skilled consulting team and a loyal customer base.
For an information technology consultant with technical support experience, teaming with Progent or helping our customers can enhance your knowledge via cooperation with Progent's group of highly team-oriented, talented engineers. Progent's commitment to delivering network expertise and technical support to small and midsize companies will offer you the chance to work intimately with key players and add significantly to the success of exciting companies.
Progent is hiring technical professionals who can show verifiable certification in their special focus. So, if you are a Microsoft consultant, you should have earned your MCSE certificate. In the case of Cisco experts, show us your CCIE or CCNP certificate. For network security, you should have earned you CISSP, Certified Information Systems Auditor, CISM, or other top security credentials. Naturally, we are aware of “paper MCSEs.” Notwithstanding, the fact that a certificate does not ensure excellence is no excuse for not owning one. If you know your field, then the majority of those tests should present no challenge. The bottom line is that if you are a professional, then customers deserve to see credentials. We can market your skills, but you should have a baseline of certifications for us to market. In case you stand adamantly against the concept of credentials, Progent can sympathize with and honor your position, but you are likely not an appropriate candidate.
Freelance Jobs for Qualified Experts for Windows, Apple OS, Linux-based, and Sun Technology For over two decades, our consulting engineers have provided affordable and successful network support expertise for small businesses in Northern California and throughout the U.S.. A sophisticated virtual office network, a common technical knowledge base, and a team approach to problem resolution have helped Progent to retain a talented staff and dramatically grow a satisfied client base.
The Experts Team is Progent's way to offer customers the help of expert computer consulting engineers who have in-depth knowledge and field experience in key areas beyond Progent's primary focus in network support and security. Experts Group members are typically freelance contractors and occasionally "moonlighters" who are thoroughly certified by Progent to collaborate with our in-house engineers to deliver end-to-end, enterprise-class information technology solutions to small and midsize businesses. Progent is continually enhancing the Experts Group in order to meet the particular requirements of our customer base.
Our Experts Group now provides consulting in these technologies:
Macintosh integration and programs
Support for Linux-powered, UNIX-based, and Sun Solaris systems
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM expertise
Line-of-business and specialized application help
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project logistics services
Special applications design and integration
Web, electronic business, EDI, and customer information portal design and deployment
Database support and efficiency consulting
Management information consulting
Telecommunications architecture consulting
Benefits of being a member of Our Experts Team include:
By working with us, you can leverage the impact of our explosive expansion and top-notch recognition in the marketplace. By maintaining a team of skilled and committed professionals, providing excellent client care, and practicing a proven, ROI-oriented billing model, we have quadrupled our clientele over the last several years and Progent now delivers consulting support to hundreds of companies in Northern California and across the United States.
Progent's veteran marketing team takes care of all aspects of marketing your skills and areas of knowledge into our quickly expanding client base, so you spend less time signing up clients and more time generating revenue.
We will facilitate communications between you and our core team of experienced Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers who are the conduit to the influential managers among Progent's clients.
Our selling and operations groups will take care of the complete selling and contracting cycle, from opportunity identification, project approval, client needs description, capabilities matching, job analysis proposal generation, agreement negotiation and execution. Your exclusive responsibility is on delivering high-level consulting service.
Progent will gives you connections to Progent's advanced virtual office infrastructure, including convenient conference sites in Northern California, as well as Internet and telecomm connectivity throughout the United States.
You will have access to our extensive database, best practices procedures, abundance of professional documents, and the aggregate expertise from one of the country's largest independent groups of experienced information technology engineers.
We will share partner-only benefits from leading technology companies including Microsoft and Cisco, including free orlow-cost educational seminars, on-line connections to restricted vendor support utilities and technical maintenance resources, and on-line in-house use programs for education and/or demonstration use.
You will have the security of backup coverage from Progent's staff consultants and other Expert Team members in the event you are unavailable to respond to client demands due to work schedule conflicts, vacation, sickness, or training.
As a 1099 subcontractor to Progent, you get simplified, risk-free invoicing and consistent payment schedules. In addition, Progent is responsible for receivables collection
There is no cost to be a member of our Experts Group, but Progent has these requirements to join:
You need to have a strong background as a consulting professional operating on your own in your area of expertise, including a minimum two year history of completed consulting projects or you must have your own active client base for whom you currently provide continuing consulting services.
You have to show that you are an expert in your area of specialization, which includes having an extensive task-relevant history and strong references, and possess current manufacturer and/or institutional professional qualifications.
You need to be able to present yourself in a professional manner and be self driven and confident in your skills. You must have strong communications skills and know how to operate successfully alone or as a member of a group.
You should know how to articulate realistic expectations to clients and other Progent consultants and you need to be able analyze projects, produce task plans, and define reasonable work schedules.
Improve Your Skills with Advanced Technology and Working with the Top Team of Network Consultants Progent's work environment will allow you to become a better consultant by improving your information technology skills and boosting the loyalty of your customers. Progent makes good on this commitment by attracting the top professional talent for you to work with, offering an advanced network and communications architecture, using proprietary application tools to deliver the highest quality of service, and by streamlining proven business models for attracting and maintaining customers.
The decisive factor that distinguishes Progent from other network support companies is the high quality of our consultants. Out of the scores of consultants who have joined Progent, we have assembled top expertise covering a wide range of technical areas. Whether it’s Microsoft Windows, Cisco switches, corporate security, Mac, Linux, server virtualization, or other vital application, we deploy experts who can help you to be effective on major projects by leveraging the aggregate experience of Progent's team of professionals.
To ensure the success of our team, we invest heavily in providing the most powerful tools to perform the job efficiently. We will exploit technology to an impressive extent and our advanced virtual office infrastructure enables effortless communications, collaboration, and knowledge sharing with fellow Progent consultants — all from at-home or on-the-road offices. You don’t throw away time or lose income with regular drives to a physical office building, and all driving you do for on-site client work is based on your time table, not ours. The best benefit is that most of Progent's support work can be done off-site, representing maximum productivity for billable time. In practice, some Progent staff do remote consulting exclusively.
Our operations are geared towards reacting quickly and effectively to customer requirements via information sharing and cooperative problem resolution. Although Progent's consultants operate with a great deal of freedom, dispatching is unified, customer issues and resolutions are carefully monitored, documented, and organized for convenient retrieval, current engineer availability is published to facilitate team tasks and simplify trouble escalation, and customer satisfaction is continually evaluated. We strengthen the feeling of connection through monthly team meetings and quarterly company-wide events.
Most of our team is located throughout California, but we are attracting a quickly expanding team of network professionals from across the United States. Progent's virtual office environment eliminates regional boundaries that limit the productivity of traditional company models. We enhance the deal by offering a full employee care program to promote the physical health and economic welfare of our team members and their families.
Not only do we have awesome consultants, Progent's marketing and administration teams live up to the excellence that characterizes Progent. These top-notch factors behind Progent’s success are helping us to identify and land the 50-60 new customers we are currently engaging every month. We recently celebrated the providing of services to our 1,000th client. Just type “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to check for yourself why Progent is also an effective marketing operation.
Possessing a commitment to technical proficiency is a key for growth with Progent. A job in consulting will push you to learn more than you would in any other position in information technology. Being exposed to a steady stream of technical challenges is what makes consulting interesting. Customers rely on consulting firms to perform the “hard stuff.” Innovative tasks, leading-edge deployments, vexing or entrenched problems, and tricky migrations are the foundation for our services every day. With us, you will not stall or be pigeonholed, as is sadly typical for computer engineers in ordinary corporate jobs. You will awake every day excited about the challenges ahead.
On the way, you will work with some great folks, both by establishing strong customer contacts and by working closely with other Progent consultants, where you will benefit from and add to their growth. Yes, technology is important, but we are a relationship-oriented company from top to bottom. If you do not offer strong communications skills or like cooperating with a diverse group of personalities, then Progent is in all likelihood a poor fit.
If this seems good to you, we urge you to talk to Progent about our vision of the new paradigm of network consulting.
Get Quality of Life Improvements and Technical Success with Our Sophisticated Virtual Office Environment Progent believes that a well architected and implemented network can be a crucial piece for accelerating a company's growth, and Progent applies this credo in our corporate system environment. Progent has created a fault-tolerant virtual office network that allows Progent's staff engineers and certified contractors to deliver fast and effective service, cooperate easily on complex jobs, and gain from professional and personal maturity from acting as a member of an exciting company ethos of self motivation and freedom.
SQL Server 2000 is a rich, web-aware database and data analysis solution that opens the door to the rapid creation of cutting-edge high-end programs that can provide your company a significant competitive edge. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 provides built-in support for XML and the capability to query across the Internet and beyond the firewall. The expertise of Progent's certified SQL Server 2000 consultants, with an average of more than over 10 years of background helping with Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, installing and managing Microsoft SQL Server solutions that are well connected with other applications powered Microsoft's .NET platform.
Progent's Juniper Networks experts can help you set up and manage Juniper Firewalls and Juniper VPN products and Juniper Security Manager utilities for Netscreen Firewalls. In addition to providing configuration services for
Juniper Firewalls and VPN products, Progent's CISSP qualified security experts and CISM qualified professionals can show you how to develop a comprehensive security plan and design protection into your business processes.
The IT sophistication of the Microsoft .NET components included with Microsoft Small Business Server calls for a computer consultant with real-world background planning and integrating seamless, comprehensive business technology solutions. Progent's SBS Server professionals have an average of more than a decade of experience supporting business networks founded on Microsoft platforms. This experience assures you results in installing, administering, and maintaining network solutions that incorporate the Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 line of servers and applications.
Cisco has developed an extensive product line of routers including appliances built to deliver the protection, bandwidth, and availability features demanded by small and mid-size companies. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, automatic failover, and redundant power for improved reliability and system availability. Progent can help you choose and configure Cisco routers to build a solid infrastructure for your network and to make it economical to grow as you add new users, open new offices, deploy new services, extend your network to customers and partners, and manage an increasingly mobile workforce. Progent offers help with a variety of routers based on Cisco's IOS platform, including the Cisco SB 100, the Cisco 800 Series Routers, Cisco 2800 and 3800 Routers, as well as legacy 1700 and 2600 Routers.
Progent is among the most qualified network support firms in Northern California for creating e-mail systems powered by Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent is skilled in helping small businesses derive all the benefits of Exchange 2000 under typical situations including updating from Exchange 5.5, migration from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail system, and jobbing out your Exchange 2000 administration.
Before Progent’s MOM-based solution, network problems were handled reactively, once workers were impacted by them. With the benefit of proactive, computer generated warnings and trend analyses created by MOM, Progent is now able to ward off server problems before they grow to be serious enough to impact network uptime. Thanks to Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can resolve potential problems before clients know that the problems exist. Progent offers help for MOM 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to offer small company networks enterprise-class availability, security and productivity.
Progent's Data Center consultants can help you select fault-tolerant data centers that match the specific needs of your company. High availability co-location sites are particularly attractive to small businesses due to of their affordability and convenience in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to create an on-site data center that offers even a minimum level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for typical small companies. Progent is ready to show you how to reap all the advantages of high availability data centers and 24x7 colo sites by providing a complete array of engineering and support services.
Progent's certified Microsoft Windows 2000 consultants can help you enhance the functionality of your current Windows 2K Servers and can simplify network management, provide technical support and repair, and enhance security. Progent can also show you how to design, rationalize, and execute a plan to migrate from Microsoft Windows Server 2000 to Windows Server 2003. Progent is expert in setting up test programs to eliminate the technical risk involved with moving to Windows 2003 Server by identifying possible hardware and software compatibility problems.
For small companies interested in Progent's network support outsourcing, design expertise, or troubleshooting offerings, call 800-993-9400 or send email to information@progent.com.
Progent's UNIX platform consulting services provide small companies and developers assistance with administering and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your organization access to UNIX consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM certification. This broad array of experience provides you with a convenient one-stop source to help you build and maintain a protected and robust cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with major versions of UNIX including Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian-GNU and Slackware.
