Full-time and Contracting Opportunities with Progent Jobs for EXperienced Network Consultants, Computer Support Specialists, CISSP Certified Experts, and Application Developers
Among America's top network consulting firms for small business systems, Progent maintains a full-time team of certified service experts who concentrate on core technologies such as:
Microsoft products
Cisco routers, switches, PIX firewalls, plus Voice over IP and VPN solutions
Network security analysis
Advanced system architecture
Off-site troubleshooting and network management
Progent's Experts Team, which contracts freelance consultants qualified and coordinated by Progent, offers exceptionally refined skills in a wide range of critical business areas and network technologies such as:
Apple OS integration and programs
Consulting for Linux, UNIX, and Sun Solaris systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management customization
Strategic and specialized application help
Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Special applications development and integration
Web, electronic business, EDI, and client information portal development and deployment
DBM support and efficiency consulting
Business intelligence consulting
Telecom systems support
Innovative models for finding clients, providing support, establishing a dynamic company culture, and offering highly competitive compensation have allowed Progent to become among the fastest expanding and best recognized Microsoft Gold Partners consulting organizations in America and to build an international presence for providing remote network support. If you are an accredited computer support professional or information technology expert with a focus on a client success and strong people skills, consultants should consider Progent a chance for adding to your professional skills, developing a more independent career, and attaining economic security.
Find Out More Information Concerning Working with Progent
Check out these links to find out more details concerning our job opportunities, company culture, operational environment, compensation model, and benefits:
Full-time Work at Progent
We are seeking a variety of full-time workers such as motivated Microsoft MCSE and MCP network consultants; connectivity experts who have CCIE certification; and consultants for fault-tolerant network design with backgrounds in mobile access, wireless networking, non-stop systems, business continuity solutions, data preservation, and server virtualization. We are also hiring workstation support experts, remote service specialists, and CISSP accredited security consultants. We are also seeking veteran managers able to operate effectively in Progent's dynamic, virtual office environment. Find out additional information about staff consulting work at Progent by going to Full-time Jobs at Progent.
Contracting Work at Progent
Progent works with independent professionals who have in-depth expertise and hands-on background in crucial IT topics beyond our main technical focus. Our Experts Team employs contractors who can provide consulting and programming support for strategic applications that include Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM; have specialized knowledge of non-Microsoft platforms such as Linux, Macintosh, or Sun, or can provide world-class help in technologies like telecommunications, web development, Electronic Data Interchange, eCommerce, or database management. Freelance consultants qualified by us cooperate with Progent's staff engineers to deliver comprehensive IT services for small business networks. If you want to find out more details about contracting work with our Experts Team, see Contract Jobs with Progent.
How We Are Different
Progent has been able to attract the best professional experts by being different. Providing an innovative blend of enterprising spirit, commitment to customer satisfaction, utilization of state-of-the-art technical tools, and a flexible work model that allows for quality-of-life choices for our consulting team, Progent offers a dynamic environment for select consultants who have a desire for rapidly improving their professional abilities to create concrete solutions for a range of organizations and technical environments. Learn more details concerning reasons Progent is unique by referring to Ways That We Are Unique.
Our Virtual Office Business Model
Progent's virtual office environment utilizes state-of-the-art technologies that support off-site support, wireless communication, easy access to Progent's support databases, and instant collaboration with mobile colleagues to allow you to solve business-critical IT issues. Our virtual office network frees you to focus on providing IT solutions rather than dealing with traffic and lets you nurture lasting client relationships by permitting you to come up with quick, effective, and cost-effective solutions. To find out additional details concerning our virtual office work environment, see Progent virtual Office Work Environment.
Compensation Model and Benefits
Our compensation model is determined by revenue sharing. The money you make is entirely tied to the revenue you generate. Consultants have the choice of focusing on life style and choosing to consult at a more relaxed pace, using our flexible structure to follow personal pursuits, or you can choose to earn considerable money through persistent work and long consulting time. Progent also provides full family health care coverage plus many other benefits. Learn more information about our compensation model and benefits by referring to Progent Compensation and Benefit Programs.
Consulting at Progent Questions and Answers
For answers to popular questions about becoming a consultant at Progent, refer to Working with Progent Q&A.
This is a list of Progent's available job openings:
Job Code
Description
A09
Operations Administrator Job
Progent is looking for a motivated person for the home-office role of Operations Administrator to assist the Director of Operations with the day-to-day management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in handling A/P and asset management responsibilities for a small, rapidly expanding business.
IT Recruitment Manager Job
Progent has an opening for a senior administrator tasked with recruiting IT experts to work with Progent's team of support engineers who provide IT outsourcing and computer support services to clients worldwide.
Market Development Manager Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a senior level sales executive responsible for selling Progent's broad range of network outsourcing and consulting offerings and functioning as the primary customer interface. The Business Development Representative is a key part of the management group, operating in sync with the CEO and Directors and Managers to make sure that corporate targets are met and that quality services are provided to our clients.
Desktop Support Expert Job
Progent is seeking a Desktop Engineer to help Progent customers to support all users of workstation and laptop PCs based on Microsoft Windows 2K, Windows Vista, and Windows XP platforms. Work in unison with customer's management or IT organization or under the direction of a Progent Senior Engineer to support the customer's workers.
Senior Remote Support Expert Positions
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Specialist to assist a variety of small business customers to maintain and service information systems off-site, using state-of-the-art technology such as MS Windows 2K/2003 and the MS .NET product family.
Senior Online Network Support Expert Jobs in Australia
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Network Support Engineer in Australia to work with a variety of Progent's worldwide clients to maintain and repair computer systems by telephone or remote connections.
Certified Cisco Engineer Positions
Progent is seeking a Senior Cisco Engineer with Cisco CCIE or CCNP certification to join Progent's staff of professionals to assist clients to design, integrate, manage, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate Cisco products.
Certified Security Consultant Jobs
Progent is seeking a Certified Security Consultant with CISM or similar security certification to join Progent's team of experts to provide small businesses comprehensive security consulting such as network security analysis, penetration testing, security strategy, network monitoring, security modeling, access management solutions consulting, operations security, and business continuity planning.
If you want to apply for any opening shown above, you should send your background information to jobs@progent.com. Please copy the code numbers of the jobs that interest you.
Details About Jobs with Us
Career Jobs for Network Consultants, Computer Support Specialists, Security Experts, and Online Support Professionals Progent is seeking to find staff-level, results-oriented Microsoft certified engineers with Microsoft MCSE certification; Cisco accredited network consultants who have CCIE certification; security consultants who have CISSP or equivalent security credentials; and high-end system architecture consultants with a background in mobile solutions, wireless connectivity, fault tolerance, business continuity, data protection, and server virtualization. Progent also is looking for professionals to work on Progent's staff of desktop service technicians and off-site support experts. In addition, Progent is seeking talented administrators who can operate effectively in Progent's fast-paced, virtual office culture.
By maintaining a staff of skilled and dedicated professionals, delivering attentive client care, and following a strong results-based fee structure, Progent has been able to increase our customer list rapidly while delivering consulting services to numerous companies in the San Francisco area and throughout the U.S. An advanced virtual office network, a shared knowledge base, and a team approach to problem solving have allowed Progent to maintain a talented consulting team and a satisfied client base.
For a network consultant with troubleshooting experience, teaming with Progent or helping our customers will expand your knowledge via interaction with Progent's group of mutually supportive, talented consultants. Our commitment to delivering network consulting and technical help to small organizations will offer you the chance to collaborate closely with decision makers and add significantly to the growth of dynamic businesses.
Progent is hiring technical professionals who have verifiable certification in their technical expertise. For example, if you are a Microsoft consultant, you must have your Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer credential. For Cisco consultants, have your CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional credential. For network security, you should have earned you CISSP, Certified Information Systems Auditor, CISM, or other leading security credentials. Naturally, we are aware of “paper MCSEs.” Still, the fact that a certificate can not guarantee excellence is no excuse for not having one. If you have mastered your field, then most of those tests should present no challenge. The point is that if you represent yourself to be an expert, then clients deserve to see certifications. We will broadcast your skills, but you must have basic certifications for Progent to work with. If you stand adamantly against the idea of credentials, we can understand and honor your position, but you are probably not a good candidate.
Freelance Work for Certified Experts for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Sun Technology For over two decades, our computer professionals have offered affordable and successful network support services for companies in Northern California and throughout the U.S. A sophisticated virtual office environment, a common support database, and a team philosophy for problem solving have enabled Progent to retain a strong consulting group and quickly expand a loyal clientele.
The Experts Team is Progent's way to provide clients the services of expert computer consulting engineers who have advanced skills and field background in key technologies outside of our primary concentration in network infrastructure and security. Experts Group members are often freelance contractors and occasionally "moonlighters" who have been carefully qualified by us to work closely with our staff consultants to provide comprehensive, world-class information technology services to small businesses. We are always expanding our Experts Group in order to address the particular needs of our customer base.
Our Experts Group currently offers consulting in these areas:
Apple OS integration and applications
Expertise for Linux, UNIX-based, and Sun Solaris environments
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management customization
Mission-critical and specialized application support
Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project logistics services
Custom applications design and deployment
Web, eCommerce, Electronic Data Interchange, and client portal design and integration
SQL management and efficiency consulting
Business intelligence expertise
Telecommunications architecture support
Advantages of being part of Our Experts Team include:
By associating with us, you get to take advantage of the impact of our explosive growth and excellent reputation in the market. By having a team of talented and committed consultants, providing attentive client care, and following a strong, value-focused pricing structure, we have multiplied our clientele during the past several years and Progent now provides consulting services to hundreds of companies in Northern California and throughout the U.S.
Our veteran marketing team handles all aspects of promoting your skills and technical knowledge into our quickly expanding client base, so you spend less effort finding clients and extra time generating revenue.
We will facilitate relationship building between you and our core team of experienced Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants who are the gateway to the influential managers among our clients.
Progent's selling and administration staffs will manage the complete sales and engagement process, from lead generation, project qualification, client requirements description, capabilities matching, job scoping proposal generation, agreement negotiation and generation. Your entire responsibility stays with providing high-level consulting expertise.
Progent will gives you access to Progent's sophisticated virtual office infrastructure, including convenient meeting/work locations throughout the San Francisco area, and Internet and telecomm connectivity throughout the United States.
You will have access to Progent's extensive database, best practices procedures, abundance of professional documents, and the aggregate experience from one of Northern California's largest pool of expert network engineers.
Progent will share special benefits from top technology companies including Microsoft and Cisco, including free orlow-cost educational seminars, web access to restricted vendor troubleshooting utilities and product maintenance resources, and downloadable internal use programs for education and/or demonstration use.
You will have the security of backup coverage from Progent's staff consultants and other Expert Team members in the event you are unavailable to respond to client demands due to work schedule conflicts, vacation, sickness, or training.
As a 1099 subcontractor to Progent, you get simplified, risk-free invoicing and consistent payment schedules. In addition, Progent is responsible for receivables collection
There is not any charge to become a member of Progent's Experts Group, but Progent has the following qualifications to join:
You should have a proven background as a consulting professional working independently in your field of specialization, including at least a two year record of completed contracting jobs or you must have an active customer base for which you currently deliver continuing support services.
You should demonstrate that you are an expert in your field of specialization, including showing an extensive task-relevant record and strong references, and have current manufacturer and/or industry professional certifications.
You have to know how to carry yourself in a professional manner and be self motivated and assured in your skills. You must have excellent communications skills and understand how to work efficiently by yourself or as part of a team.
You need to know how to communicate realistic goals to clients and fellow Progent team members and you have to know how scope out projects, produce project plans, and estimate realistic work schedules.
Improve Your Skills with the Best Technology and Joining the Top Team of Network Engineers Progent's company culture will make you a more capable consultant by enhancing your information technology knowledge and increasing the loyalty of your clients. Progent delivers on this promise by recruiting the top consulting talent for you to operate with, offering an advanced system architecture, using proprietary software tools to enable the maximum level of support, and by optimizing proven business structures for attracting and keeping clients.
The decisive factor that separates Progent from typical consulting companies is the high caliber of our consultants. Out of the scores of consulting experts who have joined us, we have recruited top talent covering a wide range of technologies. Whether it’s Microsoft Windows, Cisco firewalls, corporate security, Apple, Linux/UNIX, server virtualization, or other key technologies, we engage experts who can help you to be effective on major projects by leveraging the aggregate experience of Progent's group of professionals.
To promote the success of our team, we invest heavily in providing the most powerful tools to perform the job properly. Progent will exploit technology to an extraordinary degree and our state-of-the-art virtual office infrastructure allows effortless communications, collaboration, and information exchange with other Progent team members — all from home-based or on-the-road offices. Consultants don’t waste time or forfeit income with daily drives to a conventional office, and all travel you do for in-person customer jobs is determined by your time table, not ours. The best part is that most of our consulting work can be done remotely, offering 100% efficiency for income-producing time. In practice, some of our staff do off-site consulting only.
Our business structure is set up for reacting quickly and efficiently to client requirements via information exchange and collaborative problem resolution. Although our consultants operate with a great deal of freedom, dispatching is centralized, client problems and solutions are carefully tracked, documented, and archived for convenient retrieval, current consultant availability is broadcast to facilitate group tasks and enable problem escalation, and customer satisfaction is always evaluated. We reinforce the feeling of connection through periodic team meetings and quarterly corporate events.
The majority of Progent's consultants are located across Northern California, however Progent is building a rapidly expanding group of consulting experts throughout America. Our virtual office environment does away with geographic obstacles that restrict the productivity of traditional business structures. We complete the package by offering a full benefit program to promote the physical health and economic security of our employees and their relations.
Not only do we have world-class consultants, Progent's sales and operations teams live up to the high standards that characterizes Progent. These top-notch contributors to our growth are enabling us to target and sign up the scores of new customers we are currently acquiring every month. Progent lately celebrated the delivery of services to our 1,000th customer. Just type “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to see for yourself why Progent is also an effective marketing organization.
Possessing a passion for technical proficiency is a cornerstone for success with us. A career in consulting will drive you to enhance your skills more than is possible in any other job in information technology. Being confronted by a steady stream of network challenges is what makes consulting interesting. Customers rely on a consultant to do the “hard stuff.” Innovative projects, advanced implementations, vexing or entrenched problems, and tricky upgrades are the basis for our services every day. At Progent, you will not stagnate or be narrowly defined, as is all too typical for network engineers in traditional corporate roles. You will awake every morning enthusiastic about the challenges to come.
Along the way, you will meet some wonderful people, both by building strong 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 Progent is a relationship-focused organization through and through. If you don’t have excellent communications skills or like cooperating with a varied assortment of personalities, then Progent is probably a poor match.
If all this sounds right for you, we urge you to contact Progent about our view of the new paradigm of network consulting.
Enjoy Quality of Life Improvements and Technical Success with Our Sophisticated Virtual Office Environment Progent believes that a carefully designed and executed information system can be a pivotal factor for enabling a firm's success, and we apply this belief in our own network environment. Progent has created a non-stop virtual office network that allows Progent's staff engineers and authorized contractors to offer fast and effective service, cooperate easily on complex jobs, and gain from professional and personal growth from being a member of a dynamic company culture of personal drive and independence.
Progent’s fault tolerant network experts provide reliability support, disaster recovery services, system load balancing, high-availability interoffice access, fault-tolerant Internet architecture design, non-stop data center services, and other high-availability operations support to help your company configure a 24x7 network for strategic applications. Progent has the background to develop economical, fault-tolerant systems by utilizing the expanding library of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers such as Microsoft Windows Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Cluster Server, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster. Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco authorized consultants can show you how to you build a fault tolerant mutli-location network with a fully redundant Internet interface and intelligent system load balancing.
Progent is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has earned accredited competencies that include Information Worker Solutions. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners are the most successful Microsoft Business Partners who receive the highest client satisfaction and enjoy the closest working relationship with Microsoft. The understanding, skills, and commitment required to earn the status of Microsoft Gold Partner pays dividends to Progent's customers by allowing Progent to offer your business better solutions for your IT system.
Cisco's Unified Wireless Network infrastructure delivers cost-effective wireless networks for productive mobility. Cisco's technology supports the same level of security, scalability, and ease of administration for untethered networks that organizations demand in their tethered LANs. This involves built-in world-class protection that identifies, blocks, and self-corrects in reaction to known and new security attacks. This includes integrated mobility services such as voice support, position services, visitor connectivity, and advanced security. Cisco products have the versatility and expandability to meet the needs of IT systems of all sizes, from small businesses to global enterprises, for wireless campus environments or local offices. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network enables companies to exploit the RF environment to optimize business processes and enhance productivity via mobility. Cisco's wireless solutions lower across-the-board operational expenses and streamlines LAN deployment, support, and management. Wireless devices that Progent supports include the Cisco Aironet 1240AG access points, Cisco Aironet 1500 Series outdoor mesh access points, Cisco 1300 bridges, the Cisco WLCM-E Routers, and the Cisco 2106 Series Wireless LAN Controller.
Progent has developed a comprehensive service reporting system that stores and formats detailed documentation for all delivered services. Unlike some freelance consultants or small service organizations who offer minimal documentation or specifics of tasks performed, every service delivered by Progent is accompanied by comprehensive documentation. Each Progent staff member has access to the support reports transmitted by every staff member to each customer. The practice of detailing and organizing support activity allows more efficient service and eliminates a variety of typical problems such as when a support customer is virtually held captive to a consultant who won’t release vital service information.
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-certified security audit professional trained to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT enforcement, systems and infrastructure ROI, information technology support, protection of information resources, and business continuity planning.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants provide small and midsize businesses experienced consulting services for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005) and MOM 2000. MOM 2005 delivers extensible and scalable enterprise-class system management by featuring comprehensive event management, 24x7 monitoring and threshold alarms, recording and trend analysis, and system and program-specific heuristics and routines to increase the manageability of Windows Server System networks. Through built-in application intelligence, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 allows you to identify your IT health issues before they grow into crises, improve the efficiency of your network operations via actionable best practices, and support your network operations and senior management through sharing key service level and performance information. Progent’s MOM consulting engineers have extensive hands-on experience with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 and can help your business install and configure MOM in order to maximize the reliability and efficiency of your information system.
Progent is among the most qualified network consulting firms in Northern California for designing email systems based on Microsoft Exchange 2000. Progent specializes in helping small and mid-size companies receive the full advantages of Exchange Server 2000 for typical situations such as upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, moving from an ISP-based or POP3 e-mail system, and outsourcing your Exchange 2000 support.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2003 engineers can provide computer support and expert consulting for the entire family of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Server. Progent's Windows Server 2003 upgrade, integration, administration, and maintenance offerings include network design, installation, project management, in-person and remote technical support and repair, Call Center services, CISM-certified security services, turn-key outsourcing, and cost-effective co-sourcing.
When performing IT projects for corporate customers, Progent uses a structured methodology driven by defined milestones so as to meet financial, scheduling and engineering targets while reducing productivity disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Project Methodology utilizes industry project management procedures based on the best practices described by the Microsoft MSF methodology which includes requirements definition, architecture proposals, test models, design tuning, and expert deployment. All phases are documented to provide a detailed summary of IT services delivered and to assist in ongoing system support.
Progent practices knowledge transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By educating clients to deal with technical issues that are within their scope, Progent is able to focus on offering high-value services where Progent faces few competitors. Small companies who work with trusted independent service providers or who employ internal support personnel benefit when Progent passes on information about new technology and tested processes to make their networks more robust, secure, and efficient.
Even if your company has a small network services group and a limited IT budget, your information network can still feature the same high reliability and responsiveness that once needed a large internal service organization. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of skilled Microsoft-qualified and Cisco-certified IT professionals, the latest network management products for proactive monitoring and alerts, and economical support packages such as a help desk service to keep your vital network applications and servers operating. Progent's 24x7 Network Management Services include remote system monitoring, server monitoring, and program monitoring to reduce support costs, fix problems quickly, and prepare for issues before they degrade network performance. Progent is expert at installing System Center 2005, part of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative built on Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM) to perform complete process management. Progent supports MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 to offer small company systems enterprise-class availability, protection and performance.
Progent can supply companies in Northern California and major locations nationwide with an expert familiar with the new improvements in Microsoft Word. A consultant from Progent's Experts Team can show you how to incorporate Microsoft Word's productivity enhancing features into the workflow of your business, assist with creating templates and writing convenient macros, or offer on-site education to keep your company up to speed on Microsoft Office Word. Progent's staff consultants can help your organization build and maintain a protected, high-availability network and communications foundation to support your Microsoft Word applications.
Progent’s Microsoft certified professionals offer small and midsize companies consulting services for Microsoft ISA Servers. Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration Server includes a full featured application-layer aware firewall that can secure your IT network from attack by outside and inside sources. ISA Server provides deep inspection of Internet protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which enables ISA Server to uncover many attacks that can get by ordinary firewalls. The combined firewall and VPN structure of ISA Server permit stateful filtering and monitoring of all VPN streams. ISA Servers are the centerpiece of Microsoft's system security initiative, and Progent's Microsoft-certified experts and CISA and CISSP certified security professionals can help you strengthen your network security through expert design and deployment of Microsoft ISA Servers. ISA Server is offered in a number of versions that include the Microsoft ISA 2006 or 2004 Enterprise Edition Server and the ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server. Progent’s Microsoft ISA Server consulting team can also show you how to integrate MS Proxy Server and upgrade from ISA 2000 Server to the latest versions of ISA Server.
