Career and Freelance Openings at Progent Work for EXperienced Network Consultants, Helpdesk Service Technicians, Systems Security Consultants, and Application Specialists
Among America's premiere IT consulting firms for small and midsize business systems, Progent manages a full-time staff of certified support professionals who concentrate on core technologies including:
Microsoft technology
Cisco Integrated Services Routers, switches, firewalls, plus Voice over IP and Virtual Private Network solutions
Enterprise security consulting
Sophisticated connectivity architecture
Remote troubleshooting and system management
Progent's Experts Team, which includes independent consultants qualified and managed by Progent, offers highly specialized knowledge covering a wide variety of vital business applications and network solutions such as:
Apple OS integration and programs
Expertise for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun systems
CIO, management information analyst, and project management services
Custom program design and integration
Web site, eCommerce, EDI, and client portal development and integration
Database management and efficiency consulting
Management information expertise
Telecom architecture consulting
Creative models for attracting customers, delivering service, establishing an efficient working environment, and providing highly competitive profit sharing have allowed Progent to become among the fastest growing and most well recognized Microsoft Gold Partners consultant companies in America and to build an international presence for delivering online network expertise. If you are a certified computer support professional or information technology expert with an orientation towards a client success and strong communication skills, consulting professionals will discover Progent an opportunity for increasing your professional skills, living a more rewarding lifestyle, and attaining economic success.
Find Out More Details Concerning Working at Progent
Check out these pages to learn more information about our work opportunities, company culture, operational conditions, profit sharing structure, and benefits:
Full-time Careers at Progent
Progent is hiring a range of full-time workers such as solutions-driven Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, and MCP network consultants; connectivity experts who have Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA certification; and consultants for advanced system design with backgrounds in mobile access, wireless integration, non-stop environments, business continuity planning, data protection, and server virtualization. We are also looking for workstation support technicians, off-site troubleshooting professionals, and CISSP certified security consultants. Progent is also looking for experienced managers and administrators who can operate effectively in our high-growth, virtual office environment. Find out more information about staff professional services jobs at Progent by visiting Full-time Jobs at Progent.
Freelance Opportunities at Progent
Progent works with freelance professionals with proven knowledge and working experience in important IT areas outside our main service concentration. Progent's Experts Group hires contractors who offer consulting and programming services for strategic solutions that include Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; possess specialized knowledge of popular operating systems such as Linux, Apple OS, or Sun, or offer world-class help in areas like telecommunications, web design, EDI, eCommerce, or database management. Independent contractors qualified by us cooperate with Progent's in-house professionals to deliver comprehensive IT services for small and midsize company networks. If you want to learn additional information concerning contract opportunities with our Experts Team, visit Freelance Jobs at Progent.
Reasons That Progent Is Different
Progent has been able to recruit the best consulting experts by being different. Providing an innovative mix of enterprising drive, dedication to client satisfaction, use of state-of-the-art technology, plus an independent business model that offers life-style options for Progent's consulting team, Progent creates a stimulating culture for select individuals who have a desire for quickly improving their professional skills to create concrete solutions for a variety of organizations and technical environments. Find out additional details about reasons we are unique by referring to Reasons That We Are Exceptional.
Progent's Virtual Office Work Environment
Our virtual office model provides advanced technologies that support off-site access, wireless connectivity, convenient access to our knowledge bases, and instant cooperation with mobile team members to help you to resolve challenging network problems. Progent's virtual office network frees consultants to focus on delivering service instead of fighting commutes and helps you build lasting customer relationships by enabling you to come up with fast, effective, and cost-effective solutions. To learn more information about our virtual office business model, see Progent virtual Office Infrastructure.
Compensation Model and Benefit Packages
Our compensation model is determined by revenue sharing. What you make is directly tied to the revenue you contribute. Consultants have the choice of concentrating on quality of life and electing to consult at a more relaxed pace, utilizing our flexible schedule to make time for personal enthusiasms, or you can take advantage of the chance to earn significant income through hard work and long hours. Progent also provides full family health care insurance plus many additional benefits. Find out additional details about our compensation model and benefit programs by visiting Progent Compensation Model and Benefit Packages.
Jobs at Progent Q&A
For replies to popular enquiries concerning being a consultant at Progent, refer to Employment at Progent FAQs.
This is a list of Progent's available job opportunities:
Job Code
Job Description
A09
Operations Administrator Job
Progent is looking for a motivated person for the work-at-home position of Operations Administrator to help the Director of Operations with the day-to-day management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in handling A/P and asset management functions for a small, quickly growing company.
IT Hiring Manager Position
Progent is seeking an experienced administrative executive responsible for recruiting IT experts to work with Progent's team of computer support specialists who offer information technology outsourcing and technical support services to customers globally.
Technical Response Center Coordinator Position
Progent has a job opening for a talented individual for the position of Technical Response Center (TRC) Coordinator working with an innovative technical services business in a dynamic environment. The Technical Response Center Coordinator is to be the first point of contact for incoming Technical Response Center and Main number calls and must project a professional and compassionate demeanor in the start up of Emergency Services.
Customer Services Administrative Assistant Position
The Customer Services Administrative Assistant helps the Director of Customer Services in the routine 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 duties for the Director of Customer Services to ensure Progent provides the best possible client care.
Business Development Manager Positions
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales executive charged with selling Progent's broad array of network outsourcing and consulting offerings and acting as the front-line customer interface. The Business Development Representative is a member of the executive group, working closely with the President and Directors and Managers to ensure that business targets are met and that top notch services are provided to our customers.
Senior Network Consultant, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a proven, Microsoft-certified support engineer to become part of Progent's full-time team of consulting professionals. You must have communication skills plus technical knowledge and must be solutions oriented.
Desktop Support Expert Job
Progent is seeking a Desktop Support Expert to work with Progent clients to support all users of desktop and laptop computers powered by MS Windows 2K, Vista, and Windows XP technology. Work closely with client's management or IT staff or under the supervision of a Progent Senior Consultant to support the client’s workers.
Senior Remote Support Engineer Job
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Support Specialist to help a range of small business clients to manage and support computer networks off-site, using sophisticated technology including Microsoft Windows 2K/2003 and Microsoft's .NET product family.
Senior Online Network Support Expert Jobs in Australia
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Network Support Specialist in Australia to work with a variety of Progent's international customers to maintain and troubleshoot IT networks by phone or online access.
Senior Cisco Consultant Jobs
Progent is looking for a Certified Cisco Consultant with CCIE or CCNA certification to join Progent's staff of experts to help clients to design, integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate Cisco technology.
Senior Security Consultant Jobs
Progent is looking for a Senior Security Consultant with CISA or similar security certification to work with Progent's staff of professionals to provide small businesses a full range of security consulting such as system security evaluation, security testing, security planning, network monitoring, security architecture, access management systems expertise, business processes security, and business continuity planning.
If you would like to enquire about any position shown above, please send your resume to jobs@progent.com. Please state the code numbers of the positions of interest.
More Information Concerning Jobs with Us
Staff Jobs for Network Consultants, Desktop Support Specialists, Security Experts, and Remote Help Professionals Progent is seeking to hire staff-level, results-oriented Microsoft certified consultants with Microsoft MCSE or MCSA credentials; Cisco accredited system engineers with Cisco credentials; security professionals who have CISM or comparable security credentials; and high-end system design experts with a background in mobile access, wireless connectivity, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, data preservation, and virtual servers. Progent also is hiring professionals to join our staff of helpdesk service technicians and off-site troubleshooting experts. In addition, Progent is hiring experienced managers able to perform effectively in Progent's high-growth, virtual office culture.
By supporting a team of skilled and dedicated consultants, delivering attentive client services, and offering a strong results-based pricing model, Progent has managed to expand our client list dramatically while providing professional support to hundreds of companies in the San Francisco area and throughout the U.S.. An advanced virtual office network, a shared information base, and a team approach to problem resolution have allowed Progent to maintain a skilled staff and a loyal client list.
If you are a network professional with troubleshooting expertise, joining Progent or working for Progent's clients will enhance your skills through cooperation with Progent's group of mutually supportive, expert engineers. Our focus on providing information technology consulting and computer support to small and midsize organizations will offer you the chance to work intimately with decision makers and add significantly to the success of exciting companies.
Progent is hiring technical professionals who can show recognized certification related to their technical focus. So, if you are a Microsoft expert, you should have earned your MCSE credential. For Cisco consultants, show us your Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or CCNP certificate. For network security, you should have you Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISA, Certified Information Security Manager, or other leading security certifications. Of course, we are aware of "paper experts". Still, the fact that a credential can not ensure excellence is no reason for not earning one. If you have mastered your stuff, then the majority of these tests should be no great difficulty. The point is that if you are a professional, then clients expect credentials. Progent can market your talents, but you should have basic credentials for Progent to market. In case you stand strongly opposed to the concept of credentials, we can understand and respect your position, but you are likely not an appropriate fit.
Contract Work for Qualified Experts for Windows, Macintosh, Linux-based, and Sun Technology For more than two decades, Progent's information technology engineers have offered low-cost and effective computer consulting services for companies in Northern California and throughout the United States. A sophisticated virtual office environment, a shared support database, and a team approach to problem resolution have helped Progent to build a talented in-house team and dramatically grow a satisfied customer base.
The Experts Team is our way to offer customers the help of specialized computer support professionals who have advanced skills and field background in key technologies outside of Progent's primary concentration in system support and security. Experts Group consultants are often independent contractors and occasionally "moonlighters" who have been thoroughly certified by Progent to work closely with Progent's in-house consultants to provide comprehensive, world-class network services to small and midsize businesses. We are always enhancing the Experts Group to address the particular needs of our clients.
Our Experts Group currently provides consulting in these technologies:
Macintosh integration and applications
Expertise for Linux, UNIX-based, and Sun Solaris systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management expertise
Line-of-business and vertical application help
Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Custom applications development and integration
Web, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and client portal design and integration
Database support and performance help
Management intelligence expertise
Telecommunications systems support
Advantages of being part of Progent's Experts Group include:
By associating with Progent, you get to take advantage of the impact of Progent's explosive growth and excellent reputation in the market. By maintaining a group of skilled and dedicated consultants, providing attentive client support, and following a proven, ROI-oriented billing model, we have multiplied our customer base during the last few years and Progent currently delivers professoinal services to hundreds of businesses in California and across the U.S.
Our veteran marketing team takes care of all aspects of marketing your skills and areas of knowledge into our rapidly expanding customer base, so you spend less effort signing up clients and more time making money.
Progent will facilitate communications between you and Progent's core team of expert Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants who are the gateway to the influential managers among our clients.
Our selling and administration staffs will manage the entire selling and engagement cycle, from opportunity generation, job qualification, client needs description, skills matching, project analysis proposal writing, contract negotiation and generation. Your exclusive focus is on providing high-level consulting expertise.
We will gives you access to our sophisticated virtual office environment, including professional meeting/work sites throughout the San Francisco area, and Internet and telecomm connectivity anywhere in the U.S.
You will have access to Progent's vast knowledge base, best practices procedures, library of template-deliverable publications, and the aggregate experience from one of the country's largest pool of experienced information technology engineers.
Progent will share partner-only benefits from top vendors including Microsoft and Cisco, including free orlow-cost educational seminars, web access to special vendor troubleshooting utilities and technical maintenance resources, and downloadable internal use software for training and/or demonstration purposes.
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 not any cost to become a member of Progent's Experts Team, but Progent has these qualifications to join:
You should show a strong track record as a consultant working on your own in your field of expertise, including at least a two year history of completed contracting jobs and/or have your own active client base for which you currently deliver continuing support activity.
You need to demonstrate that you are an expert in your area of concentration, including showing an extensive task-relevant record and strong references, and have current vendor and/or institutional professional certifications.
You should be able to carry yourself in a professional manner and be self motivated and assured in your skills. You need to have strong communications skills and understand how to work efficiently alone or as part of a group.
You need to know how to communicate proper expectations to customers and fellow Progent team members and you need to be able scope out tasks, produce project plans, and estimate realistic time lines.
Improve Your Abilities with the Best Technology and Working with a Great Group of Computer Engineers Progent's business climate will allow you to become a better consulting professional by enhancing your information technology skills and boosting the satisfaction of your clients. Progent makes good on this commitment by attracting the best consulting experts for you to work with, offering a state-of-the-art system architecture, running proprietary software utilities to enable the maximum quality of support, and by streamlining our business structures for attracting and retaining customers.
The main factor that separates us from typical consulting firms is the high quality of our consultants. Among the 50 or so consultants who have teamed with Progent, we have assembled the best expertise across a broad array of technical areas. Whether it’s Microsoft servers, Cisco firewalls, corporate security, Macintosh, Linux, virtual servers, or other key technologies, we engage professionals who can help you to be successful on larger jobs by leveraging the aggregate skills of our group of experts.
To promote the productivity of our team, we invest heavily in providing the best technology to perform the job efficiently. Progent will leverage technology to an impressive extent and our advanced virtual office environment allows effortless communications, cooperation, and knowledge sharing with fellow Progent consultants — entirely from at-home or on-the-road offices. Consultants don’t waste time or forfeit income because of regular commutes to a physical office building, and all driving you do for in-person customer jobs is based on your own time table, not Progent's. The best benefit is that most of our consulting work can be done off-site, representing 100% productivity for billable time. In practice, some of our team members do remote consulting only.
Our operations are geared towards reacting quickly and efficiently to customer requirements through knowledge sharing and collaborative problem resolution. Even though our consultants operate with a great deal of independence, dispatching is centralized, customer problems and solutions are meticulously monitored, documented, and organized for easy retrieval, current engineer schedules are broadcast to facilitate group tasks and enable trouble escalation, and customer satisfaction is continually monitored. We reinforce the sense of cooperation through monthly workgroup meetings and regular company-wide events.
Most of our team is located throughout Northern California, but we are building a quickly growing team of network professionals from across the United States. Progent's virtual office infrastructure eliminates geographic boundaries that limit the efficiency of conventional company models. We enhance the deal by offering a comprehensive benefit program to ensure the health and financial welfare of our team members and their relations.
Just as we have awesome consultants, Progent's marketing and operations groups match the excellence that defines Progent. These high-performance factors behind Progent’s success are helping us to identify and land the scores of new clients we are currently acquiring every month. We lately celebrated 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.
Possessing a passion for technical excellence is a key for success with us. A job in consulting will push you to enhance your skills more than is possible in any other position in information technology. Being exposed to a steady stream of network challenges is what makes consulting exciting. Clients choose consulting firms to perform the “hard stuff.” Creative projects, leading-edge deployments, puzzling or entrenched problems, and difficult migrations are the basis for our services daily. At Progent, you will not stagnate or be narrowly defined, as is sadly typical for computer professionals in ordinary corporate roles. You will awake every day enthusiastic about the opportunities to come.
On the way, you will work with some great people, both by building close client contacts and by working closely with other Progent consultants, where you will learn from and contribute to their success. Of course, technology is important, but we are a relationship-focused organization through and through. If you don’t offer strong people skills or enjoy working with a diverse assortment of people, then we are probably not a good fit.
If this seems right for you, we urge you to contact Progent about our view of the future of information technology consulting.
Get Quality of Life Benefits and Professional Prowess with Our Advanced Virtual Office Environment Progent is convinced that a well architected and implemented network can be a pivotal factor for accelerating a firm's success, and Progent follows this credo in our corporate system environment. Progent has built a non-stop virtual office network that enables Progent's staff engineers and certified contractors to offer fast and effective service, cooperate easily on sophisticated jobs, and experience career and private maturity from acting as part of a dynamic company ethos of personal drive and freedom.
Progent provides small and medium size organizations expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPSec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies including Check Point Software, Juniper, and SonicWALL. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security strategy and select appropriate products from multiple vendors to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your budget restraints.
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT experts can show you how to design an affordable, fault tolerant Internet configuration architecture that can achieve non-stop Internet access via a wide range of fault tolerant Internet access technologies including fault tolerant BGP, automatic fail-over, and redundant Internet Service Providers. Progent offers CCIE engineers to help you utilize the most current techniques for fault tolerant Internet access to build an economical, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to create non-stop Internet availability.
Progent’s high availability inter-site connectivity and fault tolerant system infrastructure consultants can help small organizations achieve non-stop Interoffice connectivity via redundant networks featuring transparent failover. Progent’s Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts can design and implement ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how multi-path connectivity and transparent fail-over offers economical 24x7 interoffice connectivity.
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services including architecture, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and secure access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer a high level of security, high throughput, and high reliability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system,minimizing possible OS-specific security holes. PIX firewalls provide a variety of integrated protection and networking services, including cutting edge application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and multimedia security, site-to-site and mobile access IPSec VPN connectivity, smart networking services, and flexible management solutions. The Cisco ASA 5500 Series of Firewalls utilize technology developed for security appliances from Cisco's PIX 500 Series. Progent’s IT security consultants can help you select and deploy any PIX or ASA firewalls such as the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 525 Firewall, and the Cisco ASA 5540 Firewall.
The inter-connectivity requirements of the Microsoft .NET functions bundled with Small Business Server calls for an IT consultant with real-world expertise and extensive knowledge in planning and implementing cohesive end-to-end business technology solutions. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts have extensive backgrounds with the technologies incorporated in Microsoft SBS 2003 and Microsoft SBS 2000. This experience ensures you success in deploying, administering, and troubleshooting IT environments powered by the Microsoft SBS suite of servers and programs.
The clustering technology built into the high-end versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 has been dramatically redesigned to streamline the installation, setup, and administration of clusters that offer greater levels of network dependability, security, performance, and flexibility. New or improved capabilities include automated cluster verification, revamped setup and installation, unified cluster management, new cluster architecture for increased uptime, hardened security and quorum models, minimization of failure points, more disk and memory capacity, and enhancements for multi-site clusters. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you assess the business benefits of failover clusters, design and implement a deployment, educate your IT staff to manage your failover clusters, deliver continuing consulting and technical help services, and create and validate a disaster recovery procedure.
For enterprises with branch offices in California or any area served by Progent's engineers, Progent's Microsoft-certified IT support experts and authorized Cisco network consultants can provide a variety of network support services including project planning, SOX compliance, site moves, enterprise security, system architecture, on-site or remote branch office support, and troubleshooting for colocation hosting environments. A Progent network consultant can show you how to plan a multi-site information system that makes efficient use of collocation facilities and Internet hosting sites. Progent’s Microsoft qualified consultants can help major corporations plan, deploy and maintain massive rollouts of updated versions of Microsoft products including Active Directory, Exchange Server, Systems Management Server, Microsoft SQL, and Enterprise editions of Windows. Progent’s CCIE and CCNP consultants can assist you to configure Cisco technology for connection solutions that combine basic, high-performance, integrated, and wireless networking.
MS Live Communications Server provides Instant Messaging and Real Presence as part of a scalable, enterprise-grade solution featuring enhanced protection, transparent integration with other Microsoft products, an expandable, industry-standard development platform, and support for regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your organization can benefit from lower costs and elevated operational efficiencies, increased worker productivity, and better IP security with this simple-to-administer, highly available solution. Effective deployments of Live Communications Server require extensive planning and consideration prior to roll out. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide the skill necessary to deliver all the advantages of Live Communications Server across your entire organization.
Progent's Mac experts can support the creative facets of Mac environments by providing help services and education in imaging, sound, and motion video. Progent's consultants can provide expertise in a variety of Mac programs including Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Digidesign Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and After Effects. Progent can also assist you with specific projects such as scanning or digitizing audio or video or setting up an audio/video production studio.
Besides offering Microsoft Dynamics GP specialists, Progent can give you access to experts in Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Software, Microsoft Navision, Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 Accounting Software, Microsoft Business Solutions Retail Management System, Macola ERP by Exact Software, MAS 90 ERP by Best Software, and QuickBooks Pro by Intuit. Progent's consultants also can show you how to integrate and maintain a protected, reliable server and communications infrastructure to run your ERP, MRP and accounting applications.
