Full-time and Contracting Openings with Progent Work for Senior Network Consultants, Helpdesk Service Technicians, Network Security Consultants, and Application Programmers
Among the top IT consulting companies for small and midsize business systems, Progent maintains a large staff of talented support professionals who concentrate on core technologies such as:
Microsoft Windows products
Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, plus VoIP and VPN solutions
System security analysis
Advanced connectivity architecture
Off-site troubleshooting and system administration
Our Experts Team, which contracts freelance experts qualified and managed by Progent, offers highly specialized skills in a broad variety of critical software applications and networking solutions that include:
Macintosh integration and programs
Consulting for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun environments
CIO, business analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Custom applications design and deployment
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and customer portal design and deployment
Database support and efficiency help
Business information expertise
Telecommunications architecture support
Creative structures for attracting customers, delivering service, creating a dynamic company culture, and providing generous profit sharing have allowed Progent to become one of the fastest expanding and best respected Microsoft Gold Partners consultant organizations in the U.S. and to build an international presence for delivering remote network assistance. If you are an accredited IT technician or information technology expert with a drive for a client service and strong people skills, consultants will discover Progent a chance for adding to your professional skills, living a more independent career, and achieving financial success.
Find Out Additional Details About Jobs with Progent
Follow these pages to find out more details about Progent's job openings, company culture, work environment, profit sharing model, and benefits packages:
Full-time Work at Progent
We are hiring a range of full-time employees including solutions-driven Microsoft MCSE computer engineers; network consultants who have CCIE credentials; and consultants for advanced network design with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless networking, non-stop environments, business continuity planning, data protection, and server virtualization. Progent is also looking for desktop support technicians, off-site troubleshooting professionals, and CISM accredited security consultants. We are also looking for veteran managers and administrators able to operate efficiently in our high-growth, virtual office environment. Learn additional information concerning full-time professional services work at Progent by going to Consulting Jobs at Progent.
Freelance Jobs at Progent
Progent works with independent consultants with proven knowledge and working background in important information technology topics outside our primary technical focus. Our Experts Team hires contractors who can provide consulting and development services for line-of-business applications such as MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM; have in-depth expertise with popular operating systems such as Linux derivatives, Macintosh, or Sun, or can provide expert skills in areas such as telecommunications, web site development, Electronic Data Interchange, web commerce, or database management. Independent contractors certified by us cooperate with our staff professionals to deliver comprehensive IT services for small business networks. To find out additional information concerning contracting work with Progent's Experts Team, visit Contracting Work at Progent.
How We Are Exceptional
We have managed to recruit the best consulting experts by being different. With an innovative blend of entrepreneurial drive, insistence on client success, utilization of advanced technology, plus a flexible business structure that offers life-style options for Progent's team members, Progent creates a stimulating environment for talented consultants who have a desire for quickly improving their technical skills to deliver concrete benefits for a variety of organizations and technical environments. Learn additional information about ways that we are unique by visiting Reasons That We Are Exceptional.
Our Virtual Office Infrastructure
Progent's virtual office model provides advanced technologies that enable off-site support, wireless connectivity, convenient access to our knowledge bases, and close collaboration with mobile colleagues to allow you to solve business-critical IT problems. Our virtual office structure allows consultants to focus on providing IT solutions instead of fighting traffic and helps consultants build lasting customer relationships by enabling you to provide fast, effective, and cost-effective solutions. In order to learn additional details about Progent's virtual office network, go to Progent virtual Office Infrastructure.
Compensation and Benefits
Progent's compensation is based on revenue sharing. The money you earn is wholly tied to what you generate. Consultants have the choice of concentrating on life style and choosing to work at a more relaxed pace, utilizing Progent's flexible structure to follow individual pursuits, or you can use the opportunity to earn significant money by hard effort and long consulting time. Progent also provides full family health coverage plus numerous other benefits. Find out additional information concerning Progent's compensation and benefit programs by going to Our Compensation Model and Benefit Programs.
The following is a description of our current job opportunities:
Job Code
Description
A09
Operations Administrator Position
Progent is looking for a motivated individual for the home-office role of Operations Administrator to assist the Director of Operations with the daily management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in handling expense and asset management responsibilities for a small, quickly growing business.
Information Technology Hiring Manager Position
Progent is seeking a senior administrator responsible for recruiting IT experts to join Progent's team of computer support engineers who provide IT outsourcing and network consulting services to clients worldwide.
Business Development Manager Positions
The Business Development Representative is a senior level sales manager responsible for selling Progent's wide range of IT outsourcing and consulting offerings and functioning as the primary customer liaison. The Business Development Representative is a key part of the management team, operating closely with the President and Directors and Managers to make sure that business targets are accomplished and that quality services are provided to Progent's customers.
Senior Network Consultant, MCSE Positions
Progent is seeking an experienced, Microsoft-certified support engineer to become part of Progent's core team of network professionals. You must have people skills plus network knowledge and must be solutions oriented.
Desktop Support Expert Job
Progent is looking for a Desktop Support Expert to assist Progent customers to maintain all users of desktop and laptop computers powered by MS Windows 2000, Vista, and Windows XP technology. Work collaboratively with client's management or IT organization or under the supervision of a Progent Senior Consultant to support the customer's end users.
Senior Remote Support Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Engineer to help a range of small business clients to manage and support computer systems remotely, utilizing state-of-the-art technology including Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 and the MS .NET product family.
Senior Online Technical Support Expert Job in Australia
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Specialist in Australia to assist a range of worldwide clients to manage and troubleshoot computer systems via telephone or remote connections.
Certified Cisco Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a Senior Cisco Consultant with Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA credentials to join Progent's team of professionals to assist customers to plan, implement, manage, and troubleshoot small business networks based on Cisco technology.
Senior Security Consultant Positions
Progent is looking for a Senior Security Engineer with CISSP or equivalent security certification to join Progent's team of experts to provide customers comprehensive security services including system security analysis, security testing, security strategy, network monitoring, security architecture, access control solutions expertise, operations security, and business continuity planning.
If you would like to enquire about any position listed above, please e-mail your background information to jobs@progent.com. Please copy the job codes of the positions that interest you.
Details Concerning Work with Us
Fulltime Jobs for Network Engineers, Computer Support Technicians, Security Consultants, and Remote Support Technicians Progent wants to find staff-level, results-oriented Microsoft certified consultants with MCSE or MCP certification; Cisco accredited system engineers who have Cisco CCIE or CCNP certification; security consultants who have CISSP or equivalent security credentials; and advanced network architecture consultants with a background in mobile solutions, wireless networking, high availability, disaster recovery, data preservation, and VMware. Progent also is looking for employees to join our team of helpdesk support technicians and off-site troubleshooting experts. Also, Progent is seeking talented managers able to perform productively in our high-growth, virtual office environment.
By maintaining a team of talented and dedicated consultants, delivering attentive client services, and offering a competitive results-focused pricing model, We have managed to increase our customer list rapidly while delivering consulting support to hundreds of businesses in Northern California and across the United States. An advanced virtual office network, a shared information database, and a group approach to problem solving have helped Progent to retain a skilled consulting team and a satisfied customer base.
For a network professional with troubleshooting expertise, joining Progent or helping our clients can expand your knowledge via cooperation with Progent's staff of highly team-oriented, talented engineers. Progent's commitment to providing information technology expertise and technical support to small organizations will offer you the chance to collaborate closely with decision makers and add significantly to the growth of dynamic companies.
Progent is hiring technical professionals who can show verifiable certification in their special focus. So, if you are a Microsoft expert, you should have earned your MCSE certificate. For Cisco consultants, show us your CCIE or CCNP credential. For security, you should show you Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor, CISM, or other leading security credentials. Of course, we are aware of "paper experts". However, simply because a certificate can not guarantee excellence is no justification for not owning one. If you know your field, then most of those certifications should pose no great difficulty. The bottom line is that if you are a professional, then customers deserve to see credentials. We can promote your talents, but you need to provide a baseline of credentials for us to market. In case you happen to be adamantly against the idea of certifications, Progent can sympathize with and honor your opinion, but you are probably not an appropriate candidate.
Freelance Work for Qualified Application Specialists for Windows, Macintosh, Linux-based, and Sun Solaris Technology For more than 20 years, our information technology professionals have provided affordable and successful network support services for companies in Northern California and across the U.S. An advanced virtual office network, a common technical database, and a team approach to problem solving have helped Progent to retain a strong staff and quickly expand a satisfied clientele.
The Experts Team is our way to provide clients the help of specialized information technology consulting professionals who have advanced knowledge and field experience in key technologies beyond Progent's primary focus in system infrastructure and security. Experts Group consultants are often independent contractors and occasionally "moonlighters" who have been thoroughly certified by us to collaborate with our staff engineers to deliver end-to-end, enterprise-class network services to small businesses. Progent is always expanding the Experts Team to address the particular needs of our clients.
Progent's Experts Team now offers support in these areas:
Apple OS networking and programs
Consulting for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun systems
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM expertise
Strategic and specialized application help
Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project management services
Special applications design and integration
Web site, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and customer portal development and integration
SQL management and performance consulting
Business information expertise
Telecom systems support
Benefits of being a member of Progent's Experts Team include:
By associating with us, you can leverage the momentum of our explosive expansion and top-notch reputation in the marketplace. By maintaining a team of talented and dedicated consultants, offering attentive client care, and following a proven, ROI-focused pricing model, we have quadrupled our clientele during the past few years and Progent now delivers professoinal services to hundreds of companies in California and throughout the U.S.
Progent's experienced marketing staff takes care of all aspects of promoting your skills and areas of knowledge into our quickly expanding customer base, so you spend less time signing up clients and extra time making money.
We will facilitate communications between you and Progent's core team of expert Microsoft and Cisco qualified engineers who are the conduit to the key executives among Progent's clients.
Progent's sales and administration staffs will manage the entire selling and engagement process, from lead identification, project qualification, customer needs definition, skills matching, job analysis proposal writing, agreement negotiation and generation. Your entire focus stays with providing high-level consulting expertise.
We will gives you access to Progent's sophisticated virtual office infrastructure, including convenient meeting/work locations in the San Francisco area, plus Internet and telecomm access anywhere in the United States.
You will have the benefit of our vast knowledge base, best practices processes, abundance of professional documents, and the shared expertise from one of Northern California's largest independent groups of experienced network professionals.
Progent will pass on partner-only benefits from top vendors including Microsoft and Cisco, including no-cost ordiscounted educational seminars, web connections to restricted vendor troubleshooting tools and technical maintenance resources, and downloadable in-house use software for education or sales 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 part of our Experts Group, but Progent has the following qualifications to join:
You must have a strong track record as a consulting professional working on your own in your area of specialization, including at least a two year history of completed consulting jobs and/or have an active customer base to whom you now provide continuing consulting services.
You need to show that you are an expert in your field of concentration, which includes showing a long work-related history and strong referrals, and possess up-to-date vendor or industry professional qualifications.
You should be able to carry yourself in a professional way and be self motivated and assured in your skills. You need to have strong people skills and understand how to work successfully alone or as part of a group.
You need to be able to communicate realistic expectations to customers and fellow Progent consultants and you need to know how evaluate tasks, create project plans, and estimate reasonable work schedules.
Enhance Your Skills with the Best Technology and Joining a Great Team of Network Consultants Progent's business climate will allow you to become a more capable consultant by improving your information technology knowledge and increasing the loyalty of your clients. Progent delivers on this commitment by attracting the top professional talent for you to work with, providing an advanced system infrastructure, using proprietary application tools to enable the highest quality of service, and by optimizing our business structures for attracting and keeping customers.
The most important factor that differentiates us from ordinary consulting companies is the quality of our service staff. Out of the 50 or so consultants who have joined us, we have assembled top talent covering a broad array of technologies. Whether it’s Microsoft servers, Cisco firewalls, corporate security, Mac, Linux/UNIX, VMware, or other key areas, we deploy professionals who can enable you to be effective on major projects by combining the collective skills of our group of professionals.
To ensure the success of our consultants, we invest heavily in providing the most powerful technology to do the job properly. Progent will exploit technology to an extraordinary degree and our state-of-the-art virtual office environment enables effortless connectivity, cooperation, and knowledge exchange with fellow Progent team members — entirely from at-home or mobile offices. Consultants don’t waste time or lose revenue with regular commutes to a conventional office, and any travel you do for on-site customer jobs is determined by your schedule, not ours. The best benefit is that much of Progent's consulting work can be performed remotely, offering maximum efficiency for income-producing hours. In practice, some Progent team members do remote support exclusively.
Progent's business structure is geared towards reacting rapidly and efficiently to customer requirements via information exchange and collaborative problem resolution. Even though our consultants operate with a high level of independence, resource allocation is centralized, customer issues and solutions are meticulously monitored, documented, and archived for easy retrieval, current consultant schedules are published to facilitate group tasks and enable trouble escalation, and customer approval is always monitored. We strengthen the feeling of connection through periodic workgroup conferences and regular corporate events.
The majority of our team is located across Northern California, but we are building a rapidly expanding team of consulting professionals throughout the United States. Our virtual office environment eliminates geographic obstacles that restrict the productivity of traditional company structures. We complete the deal by providing a comprehensive benefit program to promote the physical health and economic welfare of our team members and their families.
Not only do we have awesome consulting professionals, our sales and administration groups match the high standards that defines Progent. These top-notch contributors to Progent’s success are helping us to identify and land the 50-60 new customers we are now engaging each month. We lately marked the delivery of support to our 1,000th client. Try typing “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to check for yourself why we are also a strong sales operation.
Having a commitment to technical proficiency is a key for growth with Progent. A job in consulting will drive you to enhance your skills more than you would in any other position in network technology. Being exposed to a continual stream of network challenges is what keeps consulting interesting. Clients choose consultants to perform the “hard stuff.” Innovative projects, advanced implementations, puzzling or chronic problems, and difficult migrations are the foundation for what we do every day. With us, you will not stall or be narrowly defined, as is sadly typical for network engineers in traditional corporate roles. You will wake up every day excited about the opportunities ahead.
On the way, you will work with some wonderful people, both by establishing strong customer relationships and by operating in conjunction with other Progent consultants, where you will learn from and contribute to their growth. Yes, technology is vital, but Progent is a relationship-oriented company from top to bottom. If you do not offer strong people skills or like working with a varied assortment of personalities, then Progent is probably not a good fit.
If all this seems good to you, we urge you to contact us about our view of the future of information technology consulting.
Get Quality of Life Improvements and Technical Success with Our Sophisticated Virtual Office Environment Progent believes that a well architected and executed information system can be a crucial factor for accelerating a company's success, and we apply this credo in our own network infrastructure. We have built a non-stop virtual office network that allows our in-house engineers and certified contractors to deliver rapid and efficient support, cooperate easily on complex jobs, and gain from career and personal growth from being a member of an exciting business ethos of self motivation and freedom.
For custom application development, Progent can provide programming experts to produce line-of-business applications in areas such as eCommerce, web development, Microsoft Dynamics packages including Microsoft Dynamics GP, and specialized management reports produced by Crystal Reports, Access Report, or FRx Reports. Progent’s experts can use Microsoft IIS to build company-specific eCommerce applications based on Microsoft ASP.NET. Also, Progent offers experts in a wide range of custom software development environments including SQL Server and Delphi. For custom e-Commerce software, Progent also can provide specialists in custom Microsoft Access, custom Microsoft Visual Basic, custom Excel, and any other specialized programming powered by any Microsoft development platform.
The Help Desk service delivery model adopted by Progent gives small and midsize businesses an effective option to dependence on freelance consultants by offering broad expertise shared by multiple engineering groups, 24x7 availability of urgent help, escalation capability to world-class experts for handling the most difficult problems, service consistency and reliability, quick follow-up enforced by veteran support managers, a choice of easy-to-use techniques for requesting service jobs, and excellent process transparency enabled by trouble ticket updates and accessible via a web portal.
Progent provides customers the services of consultants who have been awarded some of the IT industry's most prized certifications. Progent believes that clients have the right to be sure that their IT service providers have accredited testing as well as extensive real-world field experience so that Progent's customers can engage Progent's service with trust. In many cases, vendor credentials such as the CCIE confers priority for substantially better vendor support than is available to non-certified service providers, allowing Progent to deliver customers a higher class of computer service. In addition, recognized credentials such as CISSP or ISSEP for network security can aid enterprise customers to show compliance with regulatory demands by using the assistance of recognized IT experts.
Stealth intrusion checking is a key component of any overall IT system security plan. Progent’s security experts can perform thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are properly set up and consistently monitored.
E-Mail Guard from Postini provides continually updated spam and virus filtering, content filtering, and protection from e-mail-borne directory harvesting and DSA attacks. Progent is a Postini aggregator and service firm. If your business is too small to purchase for a regular Postini license, you can still get the use of Postini’s Perimeter Manager technology via Progent’s E-Mail Guard spam filtering and anti-virus service program. Progent’s certified email protection consultants can help you devise an email safety strategy that features spam filtering and antivirus products and processes.
Microsoft Office for Mac allows Mac users to receive the benefits of the industry's most familiar business applications. Progent's Apple-certified Macintosh consultants can help you configure Mac Office on a mixed-platform environment combining Apple OS X and Windows-powered platforms so that Macintosh users can take advantage of the new features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage for Mac in order to share information and system resources with co-workers who run Windows. Progent's engineers have experience with both Mac and Windows technology and can support networks that combine Apple Macintosh with Windows systems with complete resource sharing, or networks which carefully restrict collaboration between Apple Mac and Windows users.
Progent's Virtual Data Center Hosting service offers proven virtual server technology, a state-of-the-art data center, and the support services of Progent's Microsoft certified engineering team to provide small companies with a complete IT outsourcing alternative that improves network availability and security, eliminates management distraction, and lowers expenses. With Virtual Server Hosting, a small business can have each of its software platforms and key application servers hosted in a secure and fault tolerant data center on a high-performance, non-stop virtual server set up and supported by Progent's network service professionals.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can help you to evaluate the benefits of Windows Server 2008 for your business, create test systems and rollout strategies, install Windows Server 2008 with your IT infrastructure and workload, educate your support staff how to use new management utilities, and provide continuing consulting and support via budget-friendly options including Help Desk support and remote technical support.
Progent is a Registered Cisco Partner offering expert Cisco-qualified consultants ready to help you to deploy or maintain Cisco connectivity solutions. As a Certified Partner for Cisco, Progent can provide the services of Progent's on-call CCIE-certified specialists with experience in designing, implementing and troubleshooting networking environments based on Cisco technology. Since Progent is in addition a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and offers expert help for a broad range of business applications, Progent can show you how to assist you to develop end-to-end information technology solutions that maximize the business value of your network. Cisco's industry-leading line of connectivity products supported by Progent includes PIX 500 Series and ASA 5500 Series firewalls, protected high-bandwidth and integrated services routers, Cisco Aironet wireless access points and bridges, VoIP phones, Cisco Catalyst switches, as well as protection and VPN products.
Progent's Virtual Data Center hosting services provide small companies a range of benefits including lower capital expenditures, savings on operational costs, better executive focus, enterprise-class protection, enhanced availability, and business continuity..
Microsoft Great Plains accounting offers analysis and reporting features that let you monitor all operations, revenues and spending, and sales trends with built-in drill-down, query, and reporting capabilities. Progent's Microsoft Great Plains reporting consulting services can enable you to design reports that let you understand your business more completely, turning raw data into useful business information. Progent is able to improve your reporting and analytics by offering Crystal Reports expertise, FRx help, and Microsoft Excel assistance. In addition to offering reporting help, Progent can provide Microsoft .NET consulting, Microsoft SQL Server expertise, and programming experience with VBasic, XML and other development environments in order to deliver custom line-of-business software development and web commerce solutions that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains.
The integration demands of the Microsoft .NET components included with Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 requires a network expert with hands-on background and extensive experience in designing and building cohesive and comprehensive business technology solutions. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have broad backgrounds with the technologies incorporated in Microsoft SBS 2003 and SBS 2000. This expertise ensures you success in installing, managing, and troubleshooting IT solutions powered by the Microsoft SBS suite of servers and applications.
