Full-time and Subcontract Openings with Progent Jobs for Senior Network Engineers, Desktop Service Specialists, Network Security Consultants, and Application Programmers
One of the premiere computer consultant companies for small and midsize business networks, Progent manages a full-time staff of talented service professionals who concentrate on mainstream IT areas such as:
Microsoft technology
Cisco routers, Catalyst switches, PIX firewalls, plus Voice over IP and Virtual Private Network products
System security expertise
Advanced connectivity infrastructures
Remote troubleshooting and network administration
Progent's Experts Group, which includes freelance experts certified and managed by Progent, provides highly refined skills in a broad range of vital business applications and network technologies such as:
Apple OS integration and programs
Support for Linux, UNIX, and Sun environments
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management expertise
Mission-critical and vertical application help
Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project management outsourcing
Custom program design and deployment
Web site, eCommerce, EDI, and client portal design and deployment
DBM management and efficiency consulting
Business intelligence expertise
Telecommunications systems support
Creative models for attracting customers, providing support, maintaining an efficient working environment, and offering highly competitive profit sharing have enabled Progent to become among the most rapidly expanding and most well recognized Microsoft Gold Partners consulting organizations in the United States and to build a worldwide organization for delivering online network support. If you are an accredited computer support professional or information technology consultant with a drive for a client service and excellent people skills, consulting professionals will find in Progent an opportunity for adding to your professional skills, living a more rewarding career, and achieving economic security.
Find Out More Information About Jobs with Progent
Follow these links to find out more information about Progent's work openings, company culture, operational environment, compensation model, and benefits packages:
Full-time Careers at Progent
Progent is hiring a range of on-staff workers such as motivated Microsoft MCSE and MCSA computer engineers; system experts who have Cisco CCIE or CCNP credentials; and consultants for advanced network architecture with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless networking, high-availability systems, disaster recovery planning, data preservation, and VMware technology. We are also seeking desktop support technicians, off-site troubleshooting professionals, and CISSP, CISM, or CISA accredited security professionals. Progent is also hiring experienced managers who can perform efficiently in our dynamic, virtual office environment. Find out additional details concerning full-time professional services jobs at Progent by going to Consulting Jobs at Progent.
Freelance Opportunities with Progent
Progent works with independent consultants who have in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in crucial information technology topics outside Progent's main technical concentration. Our Experts Group employs independent consultants who offer advice and development support for mission-critical solutions that include Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM; have specialized expertise with non-Microsoft platforms such as Linux derivatives, Macintosh, or Sun, or offer world-class help in areas like telecommunications, web design, Electronic Data Interchange, eCommerce, or database management. Freelance contractors certified by Progent coordinate with Progent's staff engineers to provide comprehensive IT services for small company networks. To find out additional details concerning contracting opportunities with our Experts Consulting Group, go to Contracting Jobs with Progent.
How We Are Unique
Progent has been able to recruit the best consulting talent by being different. With a powerful mix of enterprising spirit, insistence on client satisfaction, use of advanced technical tools, and a flexible work model that offers quality-of-life options for our consulting team, Progent offers a stimulating culture for select individuals who have a drive for quickly improving their professional abilities to create real-world solutions for a variety of organizations and technical environments. Learn more information about ways that we are different by going to Reasons That Progent Is Exceptional.
Progent's Virtual Office Network
Our virtual office environment provides advanced technologies that support off-site support, wireless connectivity, easy access to our knowledge bases, and instant collaboration with talented team members to help you to resolve challenging IT problems. Progent's virtual office structure allows you to concentrate on providing IT solutions rather than fighting traffic and helps you nurture successful client relationships by enabling you to come up with quick, effective, and cost-effective solutions. If you want to find out additional details about Progent's virtual office infrastructure, see Progent virtual Office Infrastructure.
Compensation and Benefit Packages
Progent's compensation model is determined by revenue sharing. The money you earn is wholly tied to what you generate. Consultants have the option of focusing on life style and choosing to consult at an easy pace, using our versatile schedule to follow personal enthusiasms, or you can take advantage of the chance to make considerable income by persistent work and long hours. Progent also provides comprehensive family health care coverage plus numerous additional benefits. Find out additional information concerning Progent's compensation model and benefit programs by going to Progent Compensation and Benefits.
Below is a description of our present job opportunities:
Job Code
Description
A09
Operations Administrator Position
Progent is seeking a talented person for the work-at-home position of Operations Administrator to assist the Director of Operations with the day-to-day management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in performing expense and asset management functions for a small, rapidly growing business.
IT Recruitment Manager Job
Progent is seeking an experienced administrator responsible for recruiting technical personnel to join Progent's group of network support specialists who offer information technology outsourcing and computer support assistance to clients worldwide.
Technical Response Center Coordinator Job
Progent is looking for an experienced individual for the position 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 Technical Response Center and Main number calls and must present a professional and sympathetic attitude in the start up of Emergency Services.
Customer Services Administrative Assistant Job
The Customer Services Administrative Assistant helps the Director of Customer Services in the day-to-day operations of Progent’s Customer Care initiatives, including duties such as First Service follow up calls. The Customer Services Administrative Assistant carries out an assortment of administrative responsibilities for the Director of Customer Services to make sure Progent delivers the best possible client care.
Market Development Representative Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales executive responsible for selling Progent's wide range of network outsourcing and support offerings and functioning as the primary client liaison. The Business Development Representative is a member of the management team, working in sync with the President and Directors and Managers to ensure that business goals are met and that the highest level of services are delivered to Progent's clients.
Senior IT Consulting Expert, MCSE Jobs
Progent is seeking a proven, Microsoft-certified support professional to become part of Progent's internal team of consulting professionals. You must have communication skills plus network expertise and must be solutions oriented.
Desktop Support Expert Jobs
Progent is looking for a Desktop Support Expert to assist Progent customers to help all workers using desktop and laptop PCs powered by Microsoft Windows 2K, Vista, and Windows XP platforms. Work in unison with client's management or IT group or under the direction of a Progent Senior Consultant to support the client’s employees.
Senior Remote Support Expert Jobs
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Expert to assist a variety of Progent's customers to maintain and support computer systems off-site, utilizing state-of-the-art technology including MS Windows 2000/2003 and the MS .NET product family.
Senior Remote Network Support Engineer Job in Australia
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Specialist in Australia to work with a range of international customers to manage and repair information networks via telephone or online connections.
Certified Cisco Consultant Job
Progent is looking for a Certified Cisco Engineer with CCIE or CCNA credentials to join Progent's staff of professionals to assist customers to design, install, manage, and repair IT networks based on Cisco products.
Senior Security Consultant Jobs
Progent is seeking a Senior Security Engineer with CISA or similar security credentials to work with Progent's staff of professionals to offer small businesses comprehensive security services including network security analysis, penetration testing, security planning, network monitoring, security architecture, access control solutions consulting, operations security, and disaster recovery planning.
If you wish to apply for any position shown above, you should e-mail your resume to jobs@progent.com. Be sure to state the job codes of the positions that interest you.
More Information Concerning Work with Us
Career Work for Network Engineers, Desktop Service Specialists, Security Consultants, and Online Help Professionals Progent wants to find full-time, solutions-oriented Microsoft certified consultants with MCSE or MCP certification; Cisco accredited system engineers who have Cisco certification; security professionals with CISSP, CISM, or CISA or comparable security certification; and advanced system design experts with a background in mobile access, wireless networking, high availability, disaster recovery, data protection, and virtual servers. Progent also is hiring professionals who can join Progent's staff of help desk service specialists and remote troubleshooting professionals. In addition, We are seeking talented administrators who can perform effectively in our fast-paced, virtual office culture.
By supporting a staff of talented and motivated professionals, providing attentive customer care, and following a strong value-focused fee structure, We have managed to expand our customer list dramatically while providing consulting support to numerous businesses in Northern California and across the U.S.. A sophisticated virtual office network, a common knowledge database, and a group approach to problem resolution have allowed Progent to maintain a talented staff and a loyal client list.
If you are a network consultant with technical support expertise, teaming with Progent or helping Progent's clients can expand your knowledge through cooperation with Progent's group of highly team-oriented, talented consultants. Our commitment to providing information technology consulting and computer help to small and midsize organizations will offer you the chance to work closely with decision makers and contribute appreciably to the success of exciting companies.
Progent is hiring consultants that can show verifiable credentials related to their special focus. So, if you are a Microsoft expert, you should have your MCSE certificate. For Cisco experts, show us your Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or CCNP credential. For network security, you should have you CISSP, CISA, Certified Information Security Manager, or one of the other leading security credentials. Of course, Progent is aware of “paper MCSEs.” Nevertheless, the fact that a certificate can not guarantee expertise is no excuse for not owning one. If you have mastered your field, then the majority of those tests should present no challenge. The crux of the matter is that if you represent yourself to be a professional, then customers deserve to see credentials. Progent will promote your talents, but you need to provide standard certifications for us to market. If you happen to be strongly opposed to the idea of credentials, we can sympathize with and respect your position, but you are likely not a good fit.
Contract Jobs for Certified Experts for Windows, Macintosh, Linux-based, and Sun Solaris Technology For over two decades, Progent's computer professionals have offered affordable and successful computer consulting services for companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the U.S.. A sophisticated virtual office environment, a shared support knowledge base, and a collaborative approach to problem solving have helped us to build a talented consulting group and quickly grow a loyal clientele.
The Experts Team is our way to offer clients the help of expert computer support professionals who have advanced knowledge and field background in key areas beyond our core concentration in network infrastructure and security. Experts Group consultants are often independent engineers and sometimes "moonlighters" who have been thoroughly certified by Progent to work closely with our staff engineers to deliver end-to-end, enterprise-class information technology services to small and midsize businesses. Progent is continually enhancing our Experts Team in order to address the particular requirements of our clients.
Our Experts Group currently offers consulting in these technologies:
Apple OS networking and applications
Expertise for Linux-based, UNIX, and Sun Solaris environments
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management expertise
Line-of-business and vertical program help
CIO, business analyst, and project management services
Special applications development and deployment
Web, eCommerce, Electronic Data Interchange, and customer portal development and deployment
DBM support and efficiency help
Management information consulting
Telecom systems support
Benefits of becoming a member of Progent's Experts Group include:
By associating with Progent, you get to leverage the impact of Progent's explosive growth and excellent reputation in the marketplace. By maintaining a group of skilled and committed consultants, offering excellent client care, and following a strong, value-focused pricing model, Progent has multiplied our customer base over the past several years and Progent currently provides professoinal support to hundreds of businesses in Northern California and across the U.S.
Our veteran marketing staff handles all facets of promoting your services and technical knowledge into our quickly expanding client base, so you spend less effort finding customers and more time making money.
We will facilitate relationship building between you and our core team of experienced Microsoft and Cisco qualified consultants who act as the gateway to the influential managers among Progent's clients.
Progent's selling and administration teams will take care of the complete sales and contracting cycle, from lead generation, project qualification, client needs description, capabilities matching, project analysis proposal generation, contract negotiation and execution. Your exclusive responsibility stays with delivering top-quality consulting service.
We will provide you connections to our sophisticated virtual office infrastructure, including convenient conference sites throughout Northern California, as well as data and voice connectivity anywhere in the U.S.
You will have the benefit of Progent's extensive database, best practices procedures, library of professional publications, and the aggregate experience from one of the country's largest independent groups of experienced network engineers.
We will share partner-only benefits from top technology companies including Microsoft and Cisco, including free orlow-cost educational seminars, web connections to special vendor support tools and technical maintenance resources, and on-line in-house use programs for training 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 charge to be part of Progent's Experts Team, but we do have the following requirements to join:
You need to show a strong track record as a consulting professional operating on your own in your field of specialization, including a minimum two year record of completed consulting jobs or you must have your own active customer base to whom you now provide ongoing consulting activity.
You have to demonstrate that you are an expert in your field of concentration, including showing an extensive work-related record and strong referrals, and have current manufacturer or industry professional certifications.
You must be able to carry yourself in a professional manner and be self driven and assured in your skills. You need to have strong people skills and know how to work effectively by yourself or as a member of a group.
You should be able to communicate proper expectations to clients and other Progent team members and you should be able analyze jobs, produce task plans, and define realistic time lines.
Improve Your Skills with Advanced Technology and Working with a Great Team of Network Engineers Progent's productive atmosphere will make you a more capable consulting professional by enhancing your technical skills and boosting the loyalty of your clients. Progent delivers on this commitment by attracting the best consulting talent for you to operate with, offering a state-of-the-art network and communications infrastructure, using specialized application utilities to enable the maximum quality of service, and by optimizing our operational structures for finding and retaining clients.
The main factor that distinguishes us from most network support companies is the high quality of our support professionals. Among the 50 or so consulting experts who have teamed with us, we have assembled top expertise covering a wide range of technologies. Whether it’s Microsoft servers, Cisco firewalls, network security, Macintosh, Linux/UNIX, server virtualization, or other vital application, we deploy experts who can enable you to be successful on major jobs by leveraging the collective experience of our team of experts.
To promote the success of our team, we invest heavily in providing the best technology to do the work properly. Progent will exploit information technology to an extraordinary extent and our advanced virtual office infrastructure enables effortless communications, cooperation, and information exchange with fellow Progent consultants — entirely from at-home or mobile offices. You don’t throw away time or forfeit revenue because of daily drives to a physical office building, and any driving you do for in-person client work is based on your own schedule, not Progent's. The best part is that much of Progent's support work can be done off-site, offering 100% productivity for income-producing hours. In practice, some Progent staff do remote support exclusively.
Progent's operations are set up for responding rapidly and effectively to customer requirements via information sharing and cooperative problem resolution. Even though Progent's consultants work with a high level of freedom, resource allocation is centralized, customer issues and resolutions are carefully monitored, documented, and organized for easy retrieval, current engineer availability is broadcast to facilitate group projects and simplify trouble escalation, and customer satisfaction is continually evaluated. We strengthen the sense of cooperation via periodic team conferences and regular company-wide events.
Most of Progent's consultants are located across California, but we are building a quickly growing team of network experts throughout the U.S. Progent's virtual office environment eliminates geographic obstacles that limit the efficiency of traditional business models. We enhance the package by providing a comprehensive benefit program to ensure the health and economic welfare of our team members and their families.
Just as we have awesome consultants, our sales and operations teams match the excellence that characterizes Progent. These top-notch contributors to our success are helping us to identify and land the scores of new customers we are currently acquiring each 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 sales operation.
Having a passion for technical proficiency is a cornerstone for success with Progent. A career in consulting will drive you to enhance your skills more than you would in any other job in information technology. Being exposed to a continual stream of network challenges is what makes consulting interesting. Customers choose a consultant to do the toughest jobs. Innovative tasks, advanced implementations, vexing or entrenched problems, and difficult migrations are the basis for what we do daily. With us, you will not stagnate or be narrowly defined, as is all too typical for computer professionals in ordinary corporate jobs. You will awake every day excited about the challenges to come.
Along the way, you will work with some wonderful folks, both by establishing strong client contacts and by operating in conjunction with other Progent team members, where you will learn from and add to their growth. Yes, technology is important, but Progent is a relationship-oriented company through and through. If you do not offer excellent communications skills or enjoy cooperating with a varied group of personalities, then we are probably a poor fit.
If this seems good to you, we urge you to contact us about our view of the new paradigm of information technology consulting.
Enjoy Quality of Life Improvements and Technical Success with Our Advanced Virtual Office Infrastructure Progent believes that a carefully architected and executed information system can be a crucial piece for accelerating any firm's success, and we apply this belief in our own system environment. We have created a fault-tolerant virtual office infrastructure that enables Progent's in-house consultants and certified contractors to offer fast and efficient service, collaborate easily on sophisticated jobs, and experience career and personal maturity from being a member of a dynamic company ethos of self motivation and freedom.
Progent has created a comprehensive service reporting system that records and organizes complete documentation for all billed services. Unlike many freelance consultants or local support firms who offer scant documentation or specifics of tasks done, every service provided by Progent is accompanied by comprehensive documentation. Each Progent consultant has use of the support documentation sent by each staff member to each client. The discipline of detailing and organizing service records results in more effective support and eliminates a variety of common misfortunes such as when a service customer is virtually held hostage to a consultant who won’t release the keys to the kingdom.
Progent is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has earned special competencies that include Advanced Infrastructure Solutions. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners are the elite Microsoft Business Partners who earn the highest customer satisfaction and enjoy the tightest operational relationship with Microsoft. The understanding, capabilities, and dedication needed to achieve the level of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner benefits Progent's customers by enabling Progent to provide your company better support for your information network.
Progent's work environment will make you a more capable consulting professional by enhancing your technical skills and boosting the loyalty of your customers. Progent makes good on this commitment by recruiting the best professional experts for you to operate with, providing a state-of-the-art network and communications infrastructure, using specialized software utilities to enable the highest quality of support, and by optimizing proven business models for finding and keeping customers.
Mid-sized companies can enjoy all the benefits of Microsoft Operations Manager and have fast access to Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco certified IT support professionals. Thanks to Progent's affordably priced network support packages, mid-size organizations can choose a simple MOM-based co-sourcing service program with server monitoring, proactive warnings, comprehensive system analysis, Help Desk Call Center, and remote service. For businesses with mission-critical applications who need high availability networking, Progent offers a comprehensive round-the-clock outsourcing solution. Progent supports MOM 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to provide medium-size business information systems world-class availability, security and performance.
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Progent’s Microsoft certified experts offer small and mid-size businesses world-class consulting services for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003. Systems Management Server is Microsoft's solution for change and configuration management. SMS 2003, included in Microsoft System Center 200, allows companies to deliver important applications rapidly and automatically to specified users, reduce software expense and adhere to licensing agreements by understanding patterns of usage, improve Windows protection by improving your awareness of vulnerability and by delivering critical patches, manage your mobile workforce through accepted standards independent of connection or geography, and lower operational costs by efficiently exploiting the management functions incorporated into Windows. Progent’s SMS engineers can show you how to use SMS economically for automated software and application deployment, security patch administration, and asset tracking management including program and hardware inventory.
Microsoft Office for Mac allows Apple Macintosh users to receive the benefits of the industry's most popular business programs. Progent's Apple-certified Macintosh consultants can help you set up Microsoft Office for Macintosh on a multi-vendor network that incorporates Apple OS X and Windows platforms so that Macintosh users can access the latest features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage in order to share information and system resources with colleagues who run Windows. Progent's engineers have expertise with both Mac and Windows platforms and can support networks that combine Apple Macintosh with Microsoft Windows computers with extensive resource sharing, or environments which carefully limit sharing between Mac and Windows systems.
Our compensation structure is built on revenue sharing, so just like working as a freelance contractor, your income is directly tied to your work effort. Some of our consultants stress quality of life and choose to consult at an easy pace, utilizing our flexible schedule to pursue personal enthusiasms like mountain biking, motorcycle racing, skiing, fishing, vacations, or spending free time with family and acquaintances. Others take advantage of the opportunity to make major dollars through hard effort and long hours. Progent fully encourages either end of the spectrum plus any point in the middle.
Progent can supply companies in Northern California and select locations nationwide with a Microsoft Excel specialist who can help you create state-of-the-art Excel-based solutions or offer individual training in the latest capabilities of MS Excel 2007. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants can help your business build and maintain a protected, fault tolerant network and communications foundation to run your MS Excel applications.
The sophistication and integration requirements of Microsoft Windows Servers calls for a network consulting firm with hands-on expertise and broad knowledge in designing and building seamless, end-to-end business technology systems. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified experts, which averages over 10 years working with Microsoft integration, ensures you success configuring Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2000 to match optimally with your strategic goals. Progent’s consulting support can assist you with planning, deploying, managing, and supporting Windows Server solutions that maximize the productivity of your computer network. Progent’s consultants can assist you with Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, or Microsoft Windows NT Server so they effectively support Windows XP and other clients.
Progent offers a variety of data communications packages from top service providers such as AT&T, Broadwing, and NextWeb. Data transport technologies available through Progent include Dial-up, DSL, Frame Relay over DSL, Full or Fractional T1, Burstable T1, DS3, plus fixed and moving wireless. Progent can assist you with all aspects of designing and integrating a cost-effective data transport system that maximizes the productivity of your computer network. Progent can also provide consulting services covering areas from system troubleshooting to full IT outsourcing to ensure that your data communications architecture can meet your goals.
Progent's consultants can provide Apple Mac clients a variety of services including workstation support, interconnectivity with Windows-powered computers, email help, specialized software programming, and one-on-one user education. Progent's Apple-certified experts and Microsoft-certified engineers can help your business build and maintain a safe, robust IT system and communications architecture to support networks in which Apple Macintosh servers and workstations coexist with Windows-powered and UNIX/Linux-based technology.
Progent provides consulting services for WatchGuard Firewall/VPN security appliances such as the Firefox X Core family of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard professionals can help you select, configure, and manage a WatchGuard Firewall/VPN security product that aligns with your security strategy and is within your IT budget. Progent can also help you to combine WatchGuard Firewall and WatchGuard SSL VPN products with security technology from other suppliers and provide a one-stop source for technical support, training, and security consulting.
