Work for EXperienced Network Professionals, Desktop Support Technicians, CISSP Certified Consultants, and Application Developers
Among America's premiere network consulting companies for small business networks, Progent manages a large staff of certified support experts who concentrate on core technologies including:
Microsoft technology
Cisco routers, Catalyst switches, PIX firewalls, plus Voice over IP and VPN solutions
System security analysis
Sophisticated system infrastructures
Off-site IT support and system management
Our Experts Team, which contracts independent consultants certified and coordinated by Progent, offers exceptionally specialized knowledge covering a wide variety of vital business areas and network solutions such as:
Apple OS networking and applications
Consulting for Linux, UNIX-powered, and Sun environments
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM customization
Strategic and vertical program support
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project management services
Custom program development and integration
Web, eCommerce, Electronic Data Interchange, and client information portal design and integration
DBM management and efficiency consulting
Management intelligence expertise
Telecom architecture support
Creative models for acquiring clients, delivering service, creating an efficient working environment, and offering highly competitive compensation have enabled us to be one of the most rapidly growing and most well respected Microsoft Gold Partners consulting companies in America and to establish an international organization for delivering online network expertise. If you are a certified computer support professional or network expert with a drive for a client service and excellent communication skills, consulting professionals should consider Progent an opportunity for increasing your professional skills, living a more independent career, and achieving economic security.
Learn Additional Details About Jobs with Progent
Check out these links to learn more details about our work openings, business philosophy, work environment, compensation model, and benefits packages:
Full-time Careers at Progent
Progent is hiring a range of full-time employees including experienced Microsoft MCSE and MCSA computer consultants; connectivity experts who have Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA credentials; and consultants for advanced system architecture with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless networking, high-availability environments, business continuity planning, data protection, and server virtualization. We are also hiring workstation support technicians, remote troubleshooting professionals, and CISM or CISSP certified security engineers. Progent is also hiring experienced managers who can operate effectively in Progent's high-growth, virtual office environment. Learn more details concerning staff consulting positions at Progent by referring to Consulting Jobs at Progent.
Freelance Work at Progent
Progent contracts independent consultants with proven expertise and hands-on experience in crucial information technology areas beyond our primary technical focus. Our Experts Group includes independent consultants who offer advice and development support for mission-critical applications such as MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM; possess deep knowledge of popular operating systems such as Linux derivatives, Apple OS, or Sun, or can provide world-class skills in technologies like telecommunications, web development, EDI, web commerce, or dbm programming. Freelance consultants certified by Progent cooperate with our full-time consultants to deliver comprehensive solutions for small and midsize company networks. If you want to learn additional details concerning contract opportunities with Progent's Experts Consulting Group, go to Contracting Opportunities with Progent.
How Progent Is Unique
Progent has managed to attract the best professional experts by being different. With a powerful mix of entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to customer satisfaction, use of advanced technology, and an independent work model that offers quality-of-life options for Progent's consulting team, Progent offers a stimulating environment for select individuals who posses a drive for rapidly improving their professional abilities to create concrete solutions for a range of businesses and technical environments. Learn more details concerning reasons we are exceptional by visiting Ways That Progent Is Different.
Progent's Virtual Office Work Environment
Our virtual office network incorporates sophisticated technologies that enable off-site access, wireless communication, convenient availability of Progent's knowledge bases, and instant cooperation with talented colleagues to allow you to handle business-critical IT issues. Our virtual office model enables consultants to concentrate on delivering service rather than dealing with commutes and helps you establish lasting customer relationships by permitting you to provide quick, viable, and cost-effective solutions. If you want to learn additional information concerning Progent's virtual office business model, see Progent virtual Office Infrastructure.
Compensation and Benefit Packages
Our compensation is based on revenue sharing. The money you make is entirely based on what you generate. You have the option of concentrating on life style and choosing to work at a more relaxed pace, utilizing our flexible structure to follow individual enthusiasms, or you can take advantage of the chance to make significant money by persistent effort and long hours. Progent also provides full family health care coverage as well as numerous additional benefits. Learn additional details about Progent's compensation and benefit programs by referring to Our Compensation Model and Benefits.
Employment at Progent Questions and Answers
For replies to popular enquiries about becoming a consultant at Progent, go to Jobs at Progent FAQs.
This is a list of some present job openings:
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Operations Administrator Position
Progent is looking for a motivated individual for the work-at-home role of Operations Administrator to help the Director of Operations with the daily management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in handling expense and asset management responsibilities for a small, quickly expanding business.
IT Hiring Manager Job
Progent has an opening for a senior administrative executive tasked with recruiting consultants to work with Progent's group of computer support engineers who provide IT outsourcing and computer support assistance to customers globally.
Resume Screener Position
Progent is looking for a motivated individual to help manage background summaries submitted to Progent by job applicants. The Resume Screener will operate from home and retrieve job applications submitted by email and import the resumes into a specialized application management program. The Job Application Screener will consolidate all correspondence sent by job seekers, verify that all relevant information is correctly transferred into Progent's resume database, check that professional certifications are current, and prescreen job seekers by assigning each one an initial ranking.
Market Development Representative Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales executive charged with selling Progent's broad range of network outsourcing and support offerings and functioning as the front-line customer liaison. The Business Development Representative is a key part of the management group, operating closely with the President and Directors and Managers to ensure that corporate targets are met and that the highest level of services are provided to our clients.
Desktop Engineer Job
Progent is looking for a Desktop Support Expert to assist Progent customers to provide service to all users of desktop and laptop PCs powered by MS Windows 2000, Windows Vista, and XP technology. Work in unison with client's management or IT staff or under the supervision of a Progent Senior Engineer to support the customer's employees.
Senior Remote Support Engineer Jobs
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Support Expert to assist a range of small business customers to maintain and support IT systems remotely, using state-of-the-art technology including Microsoft Windows 2K/2003 and Microsoft's .NET platform.
Certified Cisco Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a Certified Cisco Engineer with Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA credentials to join Progent's staff of professionals to assist customers to design, integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot IT networks based on Cisco products.
Certified Security Engineer Jobs
Progent is looking for a Certified Security Engineer with CISA or similar security credentials to join Progent's team of experts to offer customers comprehensive security consulting including network security analysis, security testing, security strategy, network monitoring, security architecture, access control systems consulting, operations security, and business continuity planning.
If you wish to ask about any position listed above, please e-mail your resume to jobs@progent.com. Be sure to copy the job codes of the positions that interest you.
More Information Concerning Jobs at Progent
Staff Work for Network Engineers, Desktop Support Technicians, Security Experts, and Online Help Professionals Progent wants to hire full-time, solutions-oriented Microsoft certified engineers with Microsoft MCSE or MCSA certification; Cisco certified network engineers who have Cisco certification; security consultants who have CISSP or equivalent security certification; and high-end network design experts with experience in mobile solutions, wireless connectivity, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, data protection, and VMware. Progent also is hiring professionals who can join our team of help desk service specialists and remote support experts. Also, Progent is seeking talented managers able to perform productively in Progent's fast-paced, virtual office culture.
By supporting a team of talented and motivated consultants, providing world-class customer care, and offering a competitive value-focused fee model, We have been able to increase our customer list rapidly while providing consulting services to numerous businesses in the San Francisco area and throughout the U.S. An advanced virtual office network, a common knowledge database, and a team strategy for problem resolution have helped Progent to retain a skilled staff and a loyal customer base.
If you are an information technology professional with technical support experience, teaming with Progent or helping our clients can expand your skills through cooperation with Progent's group of highly supportive, talented engineers. Progent's focus on delivering network consulting and technical help to small and midsize companies will give you the chance to collaborate intimately with decision makers and contribute significantly to the growth of exciting companies.
We are hiring consultants that have recognized credentials related to their special focus. For example, if you are a Microsoft expert, you should have earned your Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer credential. In the case of Cisco professionals, show us your CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional credential. For security, you should have you Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISA, CISM, or one of the other leading security credentials. Of course, we are familiar with “paper MCSEs.” Still, simply because a certificate can not ensure expertise is no excuse for not earning one. If you know your stuff, then most of these tests should pose no great difficulty. The crux of the matter is that if you represent yourself to be an expert, then customers expect credentials. We can promote your skills, but you need to have basic certifications for us to market. If you happen to be adamantly against the concept of credentials, we can sympathize with and honor your position, but you are likely not a good fit.
Contract Jobs for Certified Experts for Windows, Macintosh, Linux/UNIX, and Sun Technology For more than two decades, our computer engineers have offered affordable and effective computer consulting expertise 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 team approach to problem resolution have enabled us to retain a talented consulting group and quickly expand a loyal client base.
The Experts Team is Progent's way to offer customers the services of specialized computer consulting engineers who have advanced knowledge and work experience in key technologies beyond our primary focus in system support and security. Experts Team consultants are typically independent engineers and occasionally "moonlighters" who have been thoroughly qualified by Progent to collaborate with our staff consultants to deliver end-to-end, enterprise-class information technology services to small companies. We are always expanding the Experts Group in order to address the special needs of our customer base.
Progent's Experts Group now offers consulting in these areas:
Macintosh networking and applications
Expertise for Linux, UNIX-powered, and Sun systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management customization
Strategic and specialized program help
CIO, management information analyst, and project management outsourcing
Custom applications development and deployment
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and client portal design and integration
DBM management and performance consulting
Business information consulting
Telecom systems consulting
Benefits of being a member of Progent's Experts Group include:
By associating with Progent, you get to take advantage of the momentum of Progent's dramatic expansion and excellent recognition in the industry. By having a group of skilled and dedicated professionals, providing attentive client care, and practicing a strong, ROI-oriented pricing model, Progent has multiplied our clientele over the last several years and Progent currently provides consulting services to hundreds of businesses in California and throughout the U.S.
Our experienced marketing team takes care of all aspects of promoting your services and technical knowledge into our quickly growing client base, so you expend less effort signing up clients and more time making money.
Progent will assist in communications between you and our key group of experienced Microsoft and Cisco qualified consultants who are the conduit to the decision makers among Progent's customers.
Our selling and administration teams will take care of the entire sales and engagement process, from opportunity identification, project qualification, client requirements description, skills matching, project analysis proposal generation, agreement negotiation and generation. Your entire responsibility is on delivering top-quality consulting expertise.
Progent will provide you connections to our advanced virtual office infrastructure, including convenient conference locations throughout the San Francisco area, and Internet and telecomm connectivity anywhere in the U.S.
You will have access to Progent's extensive database, best practices processes, abundance of template-deliverable documents, and the shared expertise from one of the country's largest independent groups of experienced network professionals.
Progent will pass on partner-only benefits from top technology companies including Microsoft and Cisco, including free orlow-cost training classes, web connections to restricted vendor troubleshooting utilities and product maintenance resources, and downloadable in-house use programs for training 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 no fee to become a member of Progent's Experts Team, but Progent has strict requirements for membership:
You should have a proven background as a consultant operating on your own in your field of specialization, including at least a two year history of successful consulting projects and/or have your own active customer base to which you now deliver continuing consulting activity.
You need to demonstrate that you have expertise in your area of concentration, which includes showing an extensive task-relevant record and excellent referrals, and possess current manufacturer and/or institutional professional certifications.
You should be able to present yourself in a professional manner and be self driven and confident in your skills. You should have strong inter-personal skills and be able to work efficiently by yourself or as a member of a group.
You have to know how to articulate proper expectations to clients and fellow Progent team members and you must be able analyze tasks, create task plans, and define realistic work schedules.
Enhance Your Abilities with the Best Technology and Joining a Great Group of Computer Consultants Progent's productive atmosphere will allow you to become a better consulting professional by improving your technical knowledge and boosting the loyalty of your clients. Progent makes good on this commitment by recruiting the best professional talent for you to work with, offering an advanced system architecture, using proprietary software tools to enable the maximum level of support, and by optimizing proven business models for attracting and maintaining clients.
The main factor that distinguishes Progent from typical network support firms is the high quality of our consultants. Among the 50 or so consultants who have teamed with us, we have recruited the best talent across a broad range of technical areas. Be it Microsoft Windows, Cisco firewalls, network security, Apple, Linux/UNIX, VMware, or other key technologies, we engage experts who can help you to be effective on major jobs by leveraging the aggregate skills of Progent's team of experts.
To promote the success of our team, we invest heavily in making available the best tools to do the work properly. Progent will leverage technology to an extraordinary degree and our state-of-the-art virtual office infrastructure enables effortless connectivity, cooperation, and information sharing with fellow Progent consultants — entirely from home-based or mobile offices. Consultants don’t waste time or lose revenue with regular drives to a physical office, and all travel you do for in-person client jobs is based on your time table, not ours. The best part is that most of Progent's support work can be performed remotely, representing maximum efficiency for income-producing hours. In fact, some Progent staff do off-site consulting only.
Our business structure is geared towards responding rapidly and effectively to customer needs through information sharing and cooperative problem resolution. Although our consultants work with a high level of independence, resource allocation is centralized, client problems and solutions are carefully tracked, documented, and organized for easy retrieval, up-to-date engineer schedules are published to streamline team projects and enable problem escalation, and client satisfaction is always evaluated. We strengthen the sense of connection via periodic team meetings and regular company-wide events.
Most of Progent's consultants are situated throughout Northern California, but we are attracting a quickly expanding group of consulting professionals throughout the United States. Progent's virtual office environment eliminates regional boundaries that restrict the efficiency of conventional business models. We enhance the package by offering a comprehensive benefit program to promote the physical health and financial welfare of our employees and their families.
Just as we have awesome consulting professionals, our marketing and administration groups match the excellence that is Progent. These high-performance factors behind Progent’s success are helping us to target and sign up the scores of new customers we are currently engaging each month. Progent lately celebrated the delivery of support to our 1,000th client. Just type “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to see for yourself why we are also an effective marketing organization.
Possessing a passion for technical excellence is a key for success with Progent. A job in consulting will push you to enhance your skills more than you would in any other position in network technology. Being exposed to a continual series of network challenges is what makes professional support interesting. Customers choose a consultant to perform the “hard stuff.” Creative tasks, leading-edge implementations, vexing or entrenched problems, and difficult upgrades are the basis for what we do every day. At Progent, you will not stall or be pigeonholed, as is all too common for network engineers in traditional corporate jobs. You will wake up every day excited about the challenges ahead.
Along the way, you will work with some wonderful people, both by building close customer relationships and by operating in conjunction with other Progent team members, where you will benefit from and add to their growth. Yes, technology is important, but we are a relationship-focused organization through and through. If you do not offer excellent communications skills or enjoy cooperating with a diverse group of personalities, then we are in all likelihood not a good match.
If this seems good to you, we invite you to talk to us about our view of the future of information technology consulting.
Enjoy Lifestyle Improvements and Professional Prowess with Progent's Advanced Virtual Office Infrastructure Progent is convinced that a carefully designed and implemented network is a crucial factor for accelerating a firm's growth, and Progent follows this belief in our corporate system infrastructure. We have built a fault-tolerant virtual office network that enables Progent's staff engineers and certified contractors to offer fast and effective support, cooperate closely on complex projects, and experience professional and personal maturity by being part of a dynamic company culture of self motivation and independence.
VMware Server Virtualization Network Consulting Firms Consultancy
VMware Virtual Server is a free virtualization package that runs on Linux and Windows Servers. VMware Server allows companies to segment a single server into several virtual machines and to start experiencing the benefits of virtualization with minimal investment. VMware Virtual Server is a reliable yet easy to use product for users new to server virtualization techniques and is powered by VMware’s time-tested platform. VMware Server is ideal for programmers, workgroups, and satellite offices who want to streamline software development, evaluate software in ready-to-run virtual machines, re-host outdated operating systems, and simplify server provisioning. Progent's expert virtual server engineers can help you with VMware Server, VMware ESX Server, and VMware Infrastructure 3 so your company can benefit from VMware server consolidation.
Progent's UNIX family support experts offer small and mid-size companies and developers help with managing and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your business contact with UNIX experts, support professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA and CISSP credentials. This wide range of expertise offers you an easy one-stop consulting firm to show you how to build and maintain a secure and reliable cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining MS Windows with major variants of UNIX including Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux variations including RedHat Linux, SUSE, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware.
Progent’s IT outsourcing support offerings for small businesses include designing Windows XP, Microsoft .NET Server, and BackOffice environments, coordinating migrations XP, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, and Exchange 2003 Server, Help Desk services, remote and on-site troubleshooting, fixing chronic integration issues, and producing a company-wide security strategy. Progent can show you how to maximize network availability and throughput with non-stop technologies, resilient network topology, and proactive server monitoring. Progent also offers special project assistance for major upgrades and can assist with needs assessment, resource inventory, bill of materials development, sourcing qualification, procurement logistics, and full documentation. Progent’s computer outsourcing help also features training for office productivity products such as Office XP.
Progent's certified consultants can assist you you to evaluate the benefits of Windows Server 2008 for your company, create pilot systems and rollout plans, integrate Windows Server 2008 with your network environment and workload, educate your IT staff how to use enhanced administration utilities, and deliver continuing consulting and technical support via budget-friendly options including Help Desk Call Center support and remote technical assistance.
Progent’s high availability interoffice connectivity and fault tolerant network infrastructure consultants can help small businesses achieve fault tolerant Interoffice connectivity via fully redundant system architectures featuring transparent failover. Progent’s Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts can design and implement high-availability Inter-office connections based on fault tolerant EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how redundant connectivity and automatic fail-over offers economical non-stop interoffice connectivity.
CCIE Expert Certified Midsized Company Information Technology Consulting Firms Computer Consulting Firms
Progent provides IT services for medium size companies with 50 to 250 network users. The medium size company or work group has typically been an overlooked part of the market for network support expertise. The cost structures and service delivery practices of large third-party support organizations make them excessively costly for the ordinary mid-size business or small medium business (SMB), which commonly relies on a minimal information technology budget with which to support an information network whose advanced technology and capability are frequently comparable to the information systems of far larger enterprises. Progent's support delivery model, which takes great advantage of online service, virtual office technology and proactive server monitoring, dramatically reduces the network maintenance costs of a small-medium business while offering the small company with enterprise-level support from professional, world-class consultants knowledgeable in a wide range of small business network solutions. If your medium size organization or small business is looking for the quality of IT support needed by a medium size office without paying big-company prices, you need Progent.
Progent has developed a sophisticated service reporting system that records and organizes detailed documentation for all billed services. Unlike many independent consultants or local service firms who offer minimal documentation or specifics of services done, every service delivered by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Each Progent staff member has access to the service documentation transmitted by every staff member to every customer. The discipline of documenting and archiving support records results in more effective support and avoids a variety of typical problems such as when a service client is virtually held captive to a consultant who refuses to release vital service information.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers indispensable, familiar tools to computer professionals as well as to information workers, reducing the difficulty of creating, deploying, administering, and accessing company information and analytical programs on platforms ranging from mobile devices to corporate data systems. The sophistication and integration demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 require a network consultant with hands-on experience and broad knowledge in designing and deploying information-based, end-to-end business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of more than 10 years of professional work supporting Microsoft integration, assures you success in designing, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 applications that are seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft .NET environment.
Progent’s National Support Center offers nationwide remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small office information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified support professionals offer telephone help and remote secure network connection to troubleshoot and repair network problems quickly and economically. The breadth of technical expertise represented by Progent's team of nationwide support engineers makes it possible to escalate even the toughest network issues to competent experts as required.
Progent's UNIX platform consulting services offer small companies and developers assistance with administering and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent can give your organization access to UNIX experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP certification. This wide array of experience provides you with a convenient single source to help you create and manage a protected and reliable cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with popular versions of UNIX including Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SuSE Linux, Debian-GNU and Slackware.
Even if your company has a small network services staff and a limited IT budget, your information system can still feature the same high reliability and performance that once required a substantial in-house support organization. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of skilled Microsoft-qualified and Cisco-qualified network consultants, the latest system management products for proactive monitoring and alerts, and cost-effective service packages such as a help desk service to keep your mission-critical network applications and servers up and running. Progent's 24x7 Network Management Services include remote network monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring to reduce support costs, resolve problems quickly, and prepare for problems before they impact system productivity. Progent is experienced at deploying System Center 2005, part of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative powered by Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM) to perform complete event management. Progent supports MOM 2000 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to offer small business networks enterprise-class reliability, protection and capacity.
Progent is committed to knowledge transfer from Progent's support experts to customers. By teaching customers to deal with technical issues that are within their comfort zone, Progent is able to concentrate on delivering hard-to-find services where Progent faces few competitors. Medium-size companies who utilize trusted independent consultants or who employ in-house IT personnel benefit when Progent passes on information about critical technology and proven processes to make their IT environments more robust, secure, and productive.
Progent's Mac networking consultants can help you with a broad range of network foundation areas including system architecture, remote and mobile access, internetwork compatibility, security, and emerging technologies including Voice over IP and high-speed wireless connectivity. For business networks based exclusively on Mac OS X or for systems incorporating a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows powered servers and workstations, Progent has the experience and size to handle the complexity of designing, configuring, and maintaining a system architecture that is reliable, safe, efficient and aligned with your business objectives. Progent can show you how to configure Apple’s Xserve enterprise servers, Xserve RAID fault-tolerant storage systems, and Apple's Xsan SAN solution. Progent can also give you access to certified professionals to support Cisco routers and switches.