Career and Subcontract Opportunities at Progent Work for EXperienced Network Professionals, Computer Service Specialists, Security Experts, and Application Programmers
One of the premiere network consultant firms for small and midsize business networks, Progent manages a large staff of certified support experts who focus on core IT areas such as:
Microsoft technology
Cisco routers, Catalyst switches, firewalls, plus Voice over IP and Virtual Private Network products
Enterprise security consulting
Advanced connectivity architecture
Remote IT support and network management
Our Experts Group, which includes freelance consultants qualified and coordinated by Progent, provides exceptionally refined knowledge in a wide range of vital business areas and networking solutions that include:
Apple OS integration and applications
Support for Linux-based, UNIX, and Sun Solaris systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management expertise
Strategic and vertical program support
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Special program development and integration
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and client portal design and deployment
Database management and efficiency consulting
Management intelligence expertise
Telecom systems support
Creative models for attracting customers, delivering service, creating an efficient company culture, and providing generous profit sharing have allowed us to become one of the most rapidly growing and best recognized Microsoft Gold Partners consultant firms in the United States and to establish an international presence for providing remote network assistance. If you are an accredited computer technician or network consultant with a drive for a client success and excellent people skills, you should consider Progent a chance for increasing your technical skills, developing a more rewarding lifestyle, and achieving financial security.
Learn Additional Details Concerning Jobs with Progent
Check out these pages to find out additional details about our job openings, company culture, work environment, profit sharing model, and benefits:
Full-time Jobs at Progent
Progent is looking for a variety of full-time workers such as solutions-driven Microsoft MCSE and MCP computer engineers; system experts who have Cisco CCIE or CCNP certification; and specialists in fault-tolerant network design with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless networking, high-availability systems, business continuity planning, data preservation, and VMware technology. Progent is also looking for desktop support technicians, remote service specialists, and CISSP accredited security consultants. We are also looking for veteran managers who can perform efficiently in our dynamic, virtual office model. Find out more information concerning staff professional services work at Progent by going to Full-time Careers at Progent.
Freelance Opportunities at Progent
Progent contracts independent professionals with in-depth expertise and working experience in crucial information technology topics beyond Progent's main service concentration. Our Experts Team employs independent consultants who can provide consulting and programming services for strategic solutions that include MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; possess specialized knowledge of non-Microsoft operating systems such as Linux, Macintosh, or Solaris, or can provide expert help in technologies such as telecom, web design, EDI, web commerce, or dbm programming. Independent contractors qualified by Progent cooperate with our full-time engineers to provide comprehensive solutions for small business networks. To find out more information about contract work with our Experts Team, visit Contracting Jobs at Progent.
Ways That We Are Different
Progent has been able to recruit the top consulting talent by being different. Providing a powerful mix of enterprising spirit, commitment to client success, use of advanced technology, plus an independent work model that accommodates life-style options for Progent's consulting team, Progent offers a dynamic culture for select consultants who posses a drive for quickly improving their professional skills to create real-world benefits for a range of organizations and network environments. Learn additional information concerning how we are different by going to How Progent Is Different.
Our Virtual Office Network
Our virtual office model utilizes state-of-the-art technical tools that enable off-site support, wireless communication, convenient access to our support databases, and instant cooperation with mobile colleagues to allow you to deal with challenging network issues. Progent's virtual office structure enables you to concentrate on delivering IT solutions rather than dealing with traffic and helps consultants establish lasting customer relationships by permitting you to come up with fast, effective, and affordable solutions. In order to learn more information concerning Progent's virtual office infrastructure, go to Progent virtual Office Business Model.
Compensation and Benefits
Progent's compensation is determined by revenue sharing. The money you earn is wholly based on what you generate. You have the option of focusing on quality of life and choosing to consult at an easy pace, utilizing Progent's versatile structure to follow individual enthusiasms, or you can use the opportunity to earn significant income by persistent work and lots of hours. Progent also provides complete family health insurance plus numerous other benefits. Find out additional information about our compensation and benefit packages by referring to Progent Compensation and Benefits.
Consulting at Progent Questions and Answers
For answers to popular questions about becoming employed by Progent, go to Jobs at Progent FAQs.
Here is a description of Progent's current job opportunities:
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Operations Administrator Position
Progent is seeking a motivated person 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 company.
IT Recruitment Manager Position
Progent has an opening for a senior administrator tasked with hiring IT experts to work with Progent's team of support specialists who provide information technology outsourcing and engineering support services to customers globally.
Technical Response Center Coordinator Position
Progent has a position for an experienced individual for the job of Technical Response Center (TRC) Coordinator working with a creative high tech business in a fast-paced environment. The Technical Response Center Coordinator is to be the initial point of contact for incoming TRC and Main number phone calls and must project a professional and sympathetic attitude in the start up of Urgent Services.
Customer Services Administrative Assistant Job
The Customer Services Administrative Assistant assists the Director of Customer Services in the day-to-day operations of Progent’s Customer Care initiatives, including tasks such as First Service follow up interviews. The Customer Services Administrative Assistant provides an assortment of administrative responsibilities for the Director of Customer Services to ensure Progent provides the best possible client service.
Market Development Manager Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales executive responsible for selling Progent's wide range of network outsourcing and consulting offerings and acting as the front-line customer liaison. The Business Development Representative is a key part of the executive team, working closely with the President and Directors and Managers to make sure that corporate goals are met and that quality services are delivered to Progent's clients.
Senior IT Consulting Expert, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Job
Progent is looking for an experienced, Microsoft-certified support engineer to become part of Progent's core group of consulting experts. You must have communication skills as well as IT knowledge and must be success oriented.
Desktop Support Expert Job
Progent is seeking a Desktop Engineer to work with Progent clients to help all users of desktop and laptop computers based on Microsoft Windows 2000, Vista, and Windows XP technology. Work in unison with client's management or IT organization or under the direction of a Progent Senior Engineer to support the client’s employees.
Senior Remote Support Expert Positions
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Specialist to assist a variety of small business clients to manage and support information systems off-site, using advanced tools including MS Windows 2K/2003 and the MS .NET product family.
Senior Remote Technical Support Engineer Jobs in Australia
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Expert in Australia to work with a range of Progent's international customers to manage and support computer networks by telephone or online access.
Senior Cisco Consultant Positions
Progent is seeking a Senior Cisco Engineer with CCIE or CCNA certification to join Progent's staff of experts to help customers to design, implement, maintain, and repair IT networks that incorporate Cisco products.
Certified Security Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a Certified Security Engineer with CISM or similar security credentials to join Progent's staff of experts to offer small businesses a full range of security services such as system security analysis, security testing, security planning, network monitoring, security modeling, access control solutions consulting, operations security, and disaster recovery planning.
If you wish to apply for any opening shown above, please e-mail your resume to jobs@progent.com. Please include the job codes of the jobs that interest you.
Details Concerning Work with Us
Fulltime Work for Network Consultants, Computer Service Specialists, Security Experts, and Online Support Professionals Progent is seeking to find staff-level, solutions-oriented Microsoft accredited consultants with MCSE or MCP certification; Cisco certified system consultants with Cisco CCIE or CCNP credentials; security professionals who have CISSP or comparable security certification; and high-end network architecture consultants with experience in mobile solutions, wireless connectivity, high availability, business continuity, information protection, and VMware. Progent also seeks employees to work on Progent's team of helpdesk support technicians and off-site support professionals. In addition, Progent is looking for experienced administrators able to perform effectively in our high-growth, virtual office culture.
By supporting a staff of skilled and motivated professionals, providing world-class customer services, and following a competitive value-based pricing model, We have been able to increase our customer list rapidly while delivering professional services to hundreds of companies in Northern California and across the United States. A sophisticated virtual office network, a shared information database, and a group approach to problem resolution have helped Progent to retain a skilled staff and a loyal client list.
For an information technology consultant with technical support experience, joining Progent or working for Progent's clients can expand your knowledge via cooperation with Progent's group of highly team-oriented, expert consultants. Progent's focus on delivering network expertise and technical support to small and midsize companies will offer you the opportunity to collaborate intimately with decision makers and add appreciably to the success of dynamic companies.
Progent is hiring consultants who have verifiable certification related to their technical focus. For example, if you are a Microsoft consultant, you should have earned your Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer credential. For Cisco professionals, have your Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional credential. For network security, you should have earned you Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor, CISM, or one of the other top security certifications. Naturally, Progent is aware of “paper MCSEs.” Notwithstanding, simply because a certificate can not ensure excellence is no justification for not earning one. If you have mastered your field, then the majority of these certifications should pose no great difficulty. The crux of the matter is that if you call yourself an expert, then clients expect certifications. We can promote your talents, but you need to provide basic credentials for Progent to market. If you are adamantly against the concept of certifications, we can sympathize with and respect your position, but you are probably not an appropriate fit.
Freelance Jobs for Qualified Experts for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Sun Technology For over two decades, Progent's information technology engineers have provided low-cost and effective computer support expertise for companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the United States. An advanced virtual office network, a shared technical database, and a team approach to problem solving have helped us to retain a strong consulting group and quickly grow a loyal client base.
The Experts Team is Progent's way to offer clients the services of specialized computer support professionals who have advanced skills and work experience in important areas outside of our primary concentration in network support and security. Experts Group consultants are often independent contractors and sometimes "moonlighters" who have been carefully qualified by Progent to work closely with our in-house engineers to deliver end-to-end, enterprise-class information technology solutions to small and midsize companies. Progent is continually expanding the Experts Group to address the particular needs of our clients.
Progent's Experts Group currently offers consulting in these technologies:
Apple OS integration and programs
Expertise for Linux, UNIX-powered, and Sun environments
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM customization
Line-of-business and specialized application support
Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Special applications development and integration
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and customer information portal design and integration
SQL management and efficiency consulting
Management intelligence expertise
Telecom architecture support
Advantages of becoming part of Our Experts Team include:
By associating with us, you get to leverage the momentum of our explosive expansion and excellent recognition in the industry. By having a group of skilled and dedicated consultants, offering attentive customer support, and practicing a proven, value-focused pricing model, Progent has multiplied our customer base over the past few years and Progent now delivers professoinal support to hundreds of companies in Northern California and throughout the U.S.
Our veteran marketing team handles all facets of marketing your services and areas of knowledge into our rapidly growing client base, so you spend less effort signing up clients and extra time generating money.
Progent will facilitate relationship building between you and our core group of expert Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers who act as the conduit to the key executives among Progent's customers.
Our sales and administration groups will take care of the complete selling and contracting process, from lead generation, job approval, customer requirements definition, skills matching, job scoping proposal generation, contract negotiation and generation. Your exclusive responsibility stays with providing top-quality consulting expertise.
Progent will gives you connections to our sophisticated virtual office infrastructure, offering professional meeting/work locations in Northern California, plus data and voice access throughout the U.S.
You will have access to Progent's extensive knowledge base, best practices processes, abundance of template-deliverable publications, and the aggregate expertise from one of Northern California's largest pool of experienced network professionals.
Progent will pass on partner-only benefits from top technology companies such as Microsoft and Cisco, including no-cost orlow-cost training classes, on-line connections to restricted vendor support tools and technical maintenance resources, and on-line internal use programs for training 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 charge to be part of Progent's Experts Team, but Progent has strict qualifications to join:
You must have a proven background as a consultant working on your own in your area of expertise, including at least a two year history of successful consulting jobs and/or have your own active customer base to which you now deliver ongoing support activity.
You need to show that you are an expert in your field of concentration, including having an extensive work-related record and excellent referrals, and possess current vendor or institutional professional qualifications.
You have to be able to carry yourself in a professional way and be self motivated and confident in your abilities. You need to have strong inter-personal skills and be able to operate successfully alone or as part of a group.
You have to know how to articulate realistic goals to customers and fellow Progent consultants and you must know how scope out projects, produce task plans, and define reasonable time lines.
Improve Your Abilities with Advanced Technology and Working with a Great Team of Network Consultants Progent's productive atmosphere will allow you to become a better consultant by improving your information technology knowledge and increasing the loyalty of your customers. Progent makes good on this commitment by recruiting the best professional experts for you to operate with, offering an advanced network and communications infrastructure, running custom software tools to deliver the maximum quality of support, and by optimizing our operational models for finding and maintaining clients.
The decisive factor that differentiates Progent from most consulting firms is the quality of our support professionals. Out of the 50 or so consulting experts who have joined Progent, we have recruited the best talent across a wide range of technical areas. Whether it’s Microsoft servers, Cisco firewalls, corporate security, Apple, Linux, virtual servers, or other crucial areas, we engage experts who can enable you to be successful on larger jobs by combining the collective skills of our group of experts.
To ensure the productivity of our consultants, we invest significantly in making available the best tools to do the job efficiently. We will leverage information technology to an extraordinary extent and our state-of-the-art virtual office environment allows seamless connectivity, cooperation, and knowledge exchange with fellow Progent team members — entirely from at-home or on-the-road offices. Consultants don’t waste time or forfeit income because of daily drives to a physical office, and any travel you do for on-site customer work is based on your own schedule, not Progent's. The most attractive part is that most of Progent's consulting services can be performed off-site, offering maximum productivity for billable time. In fact, some of our team members do remote support exclusively.
Our business structure is set up for responding quickly and efficiently to customer needs via information exchange and collaborative problem solving. Although Progent's consultants operate with a great deal of freedom, dispatching is unified, client problems and solutions are carefully monitored, recorded, and archived for easy retrieval, up-to-date engineer availability is broadcast to facilitate team projects and enable problem escalation, and customer satisfaction is continually evaluated. We reinforce the feeling of cooperation via periodic team conferences and regular company-wide events.
Most of our team is situated across California, but Progent is attracting a rapidly expanding team of network experts throughout America. Progent's virtual office infrastructure does away with geographic boundaries that limit the efficiency of traditional business structures. We complete the deal by providing a full employee care program to ensure the physical health and economic welfare of our employees and their families.
Not only do we have world-class consultants, our marketing and administration teams live up to the excellence that is Progent. These top-notch factors behind Progent’s growth are enabling us to identify and land the scores of new customers we are currently engaging each month. Progent lately celebrated the delivery of services to our 1,000th customer. Just type “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to see for yourself why Progent is also a strong marketing operation.
Possessing a commitment to technical proficiency is a cornerstone for success with Progent. A career in consulting will drive you to learn more than you would in any other job in network technology. Being confronted by a steady series of network challenges is what makes professional support interesting. Clients choose consulting firms to perform the “hard stuff.” Creative tasks, advanced implementations, vexing or entrenched issues, and difficult migrations are the basis for our services every day. With us, you will not stall or be pigeonholed, as is all too common for computer professionals in traditional corporate jobs. You will awake every morning enthusiastic about the challenges ahead.
On the way, you will meet some wonderful people, both by building close customer contacts and by operating in conjunction with other Progent consultants, where you will learn from and add to their growth. Of course, technology is important, but we are a relationship-oriented company from top to bottom. If you don’t have strong people skills or enjoy working with a varied assortment of personalities, then Progent is in all likelihood not a good fit.
If all this seems right for you, we invite you to talk to Progent about our vision of the new paradigm of network consulting.
Enjoy Lifestyle Improvements and Technical Success with Our Sophisticated Virtual Office Environment Progent is convinced that a carefully architected and implemented network can be a pivotal factor for enabling any company's success, and Progent follows this philosophy in our own system environment. Progent has created a non-stop virtual office network that allows our in-house consultants and certified contractors to deliver rapid and effective support, collaborate closely on complex jobs, and experience professional and private growth by acting as a member of a dynamic business ethos of self motivation and freedom.
Progent’s Cisco-certified network consultants offer experienced PIX Firewall support services encompassing design, integration and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls offers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector threat protection, and secure access services. Ranging from small, easy-to-install desktop devices for small businesses and home offices to modular gigabit products, Cisco PIX firewalls offer a sensible combination of protection, performance and availability for business networks of all sizes. PIX firewalls are build around a hardened, specially designed operating system, PIX OS, minimizing potential OS-specific security holes. The Cisco PIX Firewall has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification as well as Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls provide multiple integrated protection and connectivity services, including powerful application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and digital media security, site-to-site and remote-access IPSec VPN connectivity, intelligent access services, and flexible administrative solutions. Progent’s Cisco consultants can help you select and deploy any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls including the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506E, PIX 515 Firewalls, the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 520 Firewall, Cisco PIX 525 Firewalls and the Cisco PIX 535.
Progent's Sun Solaris platform consulting experts provide small companies and software developers assistance with managing and supporting Sun Solaris systems that operate with Microsoft-based networks. Progent offers your organization contact with Solaris consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISSP credentials. This broad array of experience provides you with a convenient single source to help you build and manage a protected and reliable mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports Sun Solaris and Microsoft interoperability by combining MS Windows with major versions of UNIX such as Apple Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or leading Linux platforms such as RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, Mandrake, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
The inter-connectivity demands of the Microsoft .NET functions included with Small Business Server 2003 requires an IT expert with hands-on expertise and broad experience in designing and implementing effective and comprehensive information technology solutions. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts have broad experience with the technologies incorporated in Microsoft SBS 2003 and Microsoft SBS 2000. This expertise ensures you success in installing, managing, and troubleshooting network environments based on the SBS suite of servers and programs.
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-qualified security audit professional trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure ROI, information technology service delivery, protection of information resources, and disaster recovery planning.
Progent's UNIX platform support services provide small and mid-size companies and software developers support for administering and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that run with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent can give your business access to UNIX consultants, consulting professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM credentials. This broad range of experience provides you with a convenient one-stop source to help you create and manage a protected and reliable cross-platform connectivity and communications environment that allows UNIX and Microsoft interoperability by combining Windows with popular variants of UNIX such as Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO, and SGI/Irix or leading Linux derivatives such as RedHat, SUSE Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Progent offers technical services for medium size companies who have 50 to 250 network users. The medium size company or work group has typically been an underserved part of the market for network consulting expertise. The cost structures and service access practices of large outside support organizations make them too expensive for the typical small business or small medium business (SMB), which commonly has a minimal IT budget with which to support an IT system whose advanced technology and capability are often similar to the information systems of much bigger companies. Progent's service delivery model, which takes great advantage of remote service, virtual office technology and 24x7 server monitoring, significantly lowers the network support costs of a small-medium business while offering the small organization with big-company service from certified, IT consultants knowledgeable in a wide range of small business technologies. If your medium size organization or small business is searching for the quality of network support needed for a medium size organization without paying big-company prices, call Progent.
Progent's disaster recovery support and business continuity engineers can show you how to create a disaster recovery plan to prepare for an IT network disaster. Progent can show you how to develop a complete disaster recovery plan that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consultants can also help you build an affordable, fault-tolerant network architecture that takes into account reliability issues covering a broad array of network technologies and processes.
Progent offers small and mid-size companies professional consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPSec VPN technology from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWALL. Progent can help you design a detailed security strategy and choose the right products from multiple suppliers to support your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.
Progent's CISM-certified security staff can help you secure your Mac network through professional support offerings including performing security tests, recovery from virus and worm attacks, setting up firewalls, implementing safe off-site and mobile access, deploying monitoring programs for protection against viruses, spam, and directory harvest attacks, and developing a comprehensive security plan appropriate for the particular goals of your corporate information system.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can show you how to rationalize the business justification for implementing SharePoint Server 2007, consult with you on the most sensible version of SharePoint for your application, offer setup and integration services, assist you to install MS SQL Server as a back-end DBM, improve your network infrastructure, integrate your off-the-shelf and custom application software to work with SharePoint Server 2007, design a comprehensive security plan that includes portal solutions, and deliver maintenance and Help Desk services.
