Career and Contracting Opportunities with Progent Work for Senior Network Professionals, Desktop Service Specialists, Systems Security Experts, and Application Developers
One of America's top computer consulting firms for small business networks, Progent maintains a large staff of talented service experts who focus on core technologies including:
Microsoft Windows technology
Cisco Integrated Services Routers, switches, PIX firewalls, plus Voice over IP and Virtual Private Network solutions
Enterprise security analysis
Sophisticated connectivity architecture
Off-site IT support and system administration
Progent's Experts Team, which includes independent experts certified and coordinated by Progent, provides highly refined knowledge in a broad range of vital software applications and network technologies such as:
Macintosh networking and applications
Support for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun Solaris environments
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM customization
Strategic and specialized application help
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project management services
Special applications development and integration
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and customer information portal development and integration
Database management and performance consulting
Business intelligence expertise
Telecom systems support
Innovative structures for acquiring customers, delivering support, maintaining an efficient company culture, and providing generous compensation and benefits have enabled us to be one of the fastest growing and best respected Microsoft Gold Partners consulting firms in America and to establish a worldwide organization for providing remote IT assistance. If you are a certified IT technician or network consultant with a drive for a client service and excellent people skills, you will discover Progent a chance for enhancing your professional knowledge, developing a more rewarding career, and achieving economic security.
Find Out More Information About Working at Progent
Follow these links to learn more information concerning our job opportunities, company philosophy, work conditions, profit sharing model, and benefits:
Consulting Careers at Progent
Progent is looking for a range of full-time professionals including motivated Microsoft MCSE network consultants; network experts with Cisco CCIE certification; and specialists in fault-tolerant system architecture with experience in mobile access, wireless networking, non-stop systems, disaster recovery solutions, data protection, and VMware technology. Progent is also seeking workstation support technicians, off-site service specialists, and CISM or CISSP accredited security engineers. Progent is also looking for experienced managers and administrators who can operate efficiently in Progent's dynamic, virtual office environment. Find out more information concerning staff consulting work at Progent by going to Full-time Work at Progent.
Contract Opportunities with Progent
Progent contracts freelance professionals with specialized expertise and field experience in crucial information technology topics beyond Progent's primary technical focus. Progent's Experts Team includes contractors who can provide consulting and development support for mission-critical applications such as MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM; possess specialized expertise with non-Microsoft operating systems such as Linux derivatives, Apple OS, or Solaris, or can provide world-class help in technologies such as telecommunications, web site development, EDI, eCommerce, or database management. Freelance consultants certified by Progent cooperate with our full-time consultants to provide end-to-end IT services for small and midsize business networks. In order to find out more information about contracting jobs with our Experts Consulting Group, see Contract Work with Progent.
Reasons That We Are Unique
We have managed to attract the best consulting experts by being different. Providing a powerful mix of enterprising spirit, commitment to customer success, use of advanced technology, and a flexible work structure that allows for quality-of-life options for our consulting team, Progent creates a stimulating culture for select consultants who have a desire for quickly enhancing their technical skills to create real-world solutions for a variety of organizations and network environments. Learn additional details about how Progent is unique by referring to How Progent Is Unique.
Progent's Virtual Office Work Environment
Progent's virtual office network incorporates state-of-the-art technologies that enable off-site support, wireless communication, easy availability of Progent's support databases, and close collaboration with talented colleagues to help you to resolve business-critical IT issues. Progent's virtual office model frees consultants to concentrate on providing IT solutions instead of fighting traffic and helps you build lasting client relationships by enabling you to provide fast, effective, and affordable solutions. To learn more details about our virtual office work environment, see Progent virtual Office Work Environment.
Compensation Model and Benefit Programs
Progent's compensation model is based on revenue sharing. The money you earn is wholly based on what you generate. You have the choice of focusing on life style and electing to consult at an easy pace, using our flexible structure to make time for individual pursuits, or you can take advantage of the chance to make significant income through persistent work and long hours. Progent also provides complete family health insurance plus numerous additional benefits. Find out more information concerning our compensation model and benefits by visiting Progent Compensation Model and Benefits.
Here is a description of our current job opportunities:
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Operations Administrator Job
Progent is seeking a motivated person for the work-at-home position of Operations Administrator to assist the Director of Operations with the daily management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in performing expense and asset management functions for a small, rapidly growing company.
IT Recruitment Manager Job
Progent has an opening for a senior administrative executive responsible for hiring consultants to join Progent's team of network support engineers who provide information technology outsourcing and engineering consulting assistance to clients worldwide.
Market Development Manager Job
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales manager charged with selling Progent's wide array of network outsourcing and support offerings and functioning as the primary client interface. The Business Development Representative is a key part of the management team, working in sync with the President and Directors and Managers to make sure that corporate targets are met and that the highest level of services are provided to our clients.
Senior IT Consultant, MCSE Jobs
Progent is seeking a proven, MCSE support engineer to join Progent's core team of network experts. Applicant must have people skills plus technical knowledge and must be solutions oriented.
Desktop Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a Desktop Engineer to assist Progent clients to support all users of workstation and laptop PCs powered by Microsoft Windows 2000, Vista, and Windows XP technology. Work collaboratively with client's management or IT staff or under the direction of a Progent Senior Consultant to support the client’s employees.
Senior Remote Support Engineer Positions
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Support Specialist to assist a variety of small business customers to maintain and service computer systems remotely, utilizing state-of-the-art tools such as Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 and the MS .NET product family.
Senior Remote Technical Support Engineer Positions in Australia
Progent is looking for a Senior Online Network Support Engineer in Australia to help a variety of international clients to manage and troubleshoot information systems via telephone or remote access.
Senior Cisco Consultant Job
Progent is seeking a Senior Cisco Consultant with CCIE or CCNA certification to join Progent's staff of experts to help clients to plan, install, manage, and troubleshoot IT networks based on Cisco products.
Certified Security Consultant Positions
Progent is looking for a Senior Security Consultant with CISSP, CISM, or CISA or equivalent security credentials to work with Progent's staff of experts to provide customers a full range of security services such as network security analysis, security testing, security strategy, network monitoring, security architecture, access management solutions expertise, business processes security, and disaster recovery planning.
If you wish to ask about any position listed above, please e-mail your resume to jobs@progent.com. Be sure to include the code numbers of the jobs that interest you.
More Information Concerning Work at Progent
Fulltime Jobs for Network Engineers, Desktop Service Specialists, Security Consultants, and Online Support Professionals Progent wants to hire fulltime, results-oriented Microsoft accredited consultants with MCSE or MCP certification; Cisco certified system engineers with CCIE credentials; security professionals with CISM or comparable security credentials; and advanced network architecture consultants with a background in mobile access, wireless networking, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, information preservation, and virtual servers. Progent also is hiring professionals to join our staff of help desk service specialists and off-site troubleshooting professionals. Also, We are seeking experienced managers able to operate productively in our fast-paced, virtual office environment.
By supporting a team of talented and dedicated professionals, delivering attentive client care, and following a competitive value-based fee structure, Progent has managed to expand our customer list dramatically while delivering professional support to hundreds of companies in Northern California and throughout the United States. An advanced virtual office network, a shared knowledge database, and a team approach to problem solving have allowed Progent to retain a skilled consulting team and a loyal client list.
For an information technology consultant with troubleshooting expertise, teaming with Progent or working for Progent's clients will enhance your skills via interaction with Progent's group of mutually team-oriented, talented consultants. Progent's commitment to delivering network expertise and computer support to small organizations will give you the chance to work closely with decision makers and contribute significantly to the success of exciting companies.
Progent is hiring technical professionals who have recognized certification related to their special expertise. For example, if you are a Microsoft consultant, you should have earned your MCSE credential. In the case of Cisco consultants, have your CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional credential. For security, you should show you Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISA, CISM, or one of the other leading security credentials. Of course, Progent is aware of "paper experts". However, simply because a credential does not guarantee excellence is no excuse for not owning one. If you have mastered your stuff, then the majority of those certifications should pose no great difficulty. The point is that if you represent yourself to be a professional, then customers deserve to see certifications. Progent can broadcast your skills, but you must provide basic credentials for Progent to work with. If you are adamantly opposed to the concept of credentials, we can sympathize with and honor your opinion, but you are likely not a good candidate.
Freelance Jobs for Qualified Experts for Windows, Apple OS, Linux/UNIX, and Sun Technology For more than 20 years, Progent's computer engineers have provided affordable and successful computer consulting services for companies in Northern California and throughout the U.S. A sophisticated virtual office environment, a shared technical knowledge base, and a team philosophy for problem resolution have helped Progent to build a strong staff and dramatically grow a loyal client base.
The Experts Group is Progent's way to provide customers the services of specialized computer consulting engineers who have in-depth knowledge and field experience in key technologies beyond our primary focus in network support and security. Experts Team members are often independent contractors and occasionally "moonlighters" who are thoroughly qualified by us to collaborate with our staff consultants to deliver comprehensive, world-class information technology services to small and midsize companies. We are always expanding our Experts Team in order to meet the special needs of our clients.
Our Experts Group currently offers support in these technologies:
Apple OS networking and applications
Consulting for Linux, UNIX-based, and Sun Solaris systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management customization
Line-of-business and vertical program support
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project management services
Special applications design and integration
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and customer portal development and deployment
Database management and performance consulting
Management intelligence consulting
Telecom systems support
Benefits of being a member of Progent's Experts Team include:
By working with us, you get to take advantage of the impact of Progent's explosive growth and top-notch recognition in the industry. By having a group of talented and committed professionals, providing excellent client support, and following a strong, ROI-focused billing structure, we have multiplied our clientele during the past several years and Progent now delivers consulting services to hundreds of businesses in Northern California and across the U.S.
Our veteran marketing team handles all aspects of marketing your skills and technical knowledge into our rapidly expanding customer base, so you expend less time signing up clients and more time making money.
Progent will facilitate relationship building between you and Progent's core group of experienced Microsoft and Cisco qualified engineers who act as the gateway to the key executives among our customers.
Progent's selling and administration groups will take care of the complete sales and engagement cycle, from lead identification, job qualification, client requirements definition, skills matching, job analysis proposal writing, agreement negotiation and generation. Your entire focus is on delivering top-quality consulting service.
Progent will gives you access to Progent's advanced virtual office infrastructure, including professional conference sites in the San Francisco area, as well as Internet and telecomm connectivity anywhere in the U.S.
You will have the benefit of Progent's vast knowledge base, best practices processes, abundance of professional publications, and the aggregate experience from one of Northern California's largest independent groups of expert consulting engineers.
Progent will share partner-only benefits from top vendors such as Microsoft and Cisco, including no-cost ordiscounted educational seminars, on-line access to special vendor troubleshooting tools and product maintenance resources, and downloadable in-house use software for training and/or demonstration use.
You will have the security of backup coverage from Progent's staff consultants and other Expert Team members in the event you are unavailable to respond to client demands due to work schedule conflicts, vacation, sickness, or training.
As a 1099 subcontractor to Progent, you get simplified, risk-free invoicing and consistent payment schedules. In addition, Progent is responsible for receivables collection
There is no fee to become part of Progent's Experts Group, but we do have these requirements to join:
You must show a proven background as a consultant operating independently in your area of expertise, including a minimum two year record of successful consulting projects or you must have your own active customer base for which you currently provide continuing consulting services.
You need to show that you have expertise in your field of specialization, including showing a long work-related history and excellent references, and possess up-to-date vendor and/or industry professional certifications.
You have to be able to carry yourself in a professional manner and be self driven and confident in your skills. You must have strong inter-personal skills and understand how to work successfully alone or as part of a team.
You must know how to articulate proper expectations to clients and fellow Progent team members and you need to be able analyze projects, create task plans, and estimate reasonable time lines.
Enhance Your Skills with the Best Technology and Joining the Top Team of Network Engineers Progent's business climate will allow you to become a more capable consultant by enhancing your technical skills and increasing the satisfaction of your customers. Progent delivers on this commitment by recruiting the best consulting talent for you to work with, offering an advanced system architecture, running custom software tools to enable the highest level of support, and by streamlining our operational models for attracting and retaining customers.
The most important factor that separates Progent from other network support firms is the high quality of our consultants. Out of the 50 or so consulting experts who have teamed with us, we have recruited the best expertise across a wide array of technologies. Whether it’s Microsoft Windows, Cisco switches, corporate security, Mac, Linux/UNIX, server virtualization, or other vital areas, we engage experts who can enable you to be effective on larger jobs by leveraging the collective skills of our group of experts.
To ensure the productivity of Progent's team, we invest significantly in making available the most powerful technology to perform the work efficiently. Progent will exploit technology to an extraordinary degree and our advanced virtual office infrastructure allows seamless communications, collaboration, and information sharing with fellow Progent consultants — entirely from at-home or on-the-road offices. You don’t waste time or forfeit revenue because of regular drives to a physical office, and any travel you do for on-site customer jobs is determined by your own schedule, not Progent's. The best part is that most of our consulting services can be done remotely, representing 100% efficiency for income-producing hours. In fact, some Progent team members do remote support exclusively.
Our business structure is geared towards responding quickly and effectively to client needs via knowledge sharing and collaborative problem solving. Even though Progent's consultants operate with a high level of independence, dispatching is unified, customer problems and solutions are carefully tracked, recorded, and organized for convenient reference, current consultant schedules are broadcast to streamline team projects and simplify problem escalation, and customer satisfaction is continually evaluated. We strengthen the sense of connection via periodic workgroup meetings and regular company-wide events.
The majority of Progent's team is located across California, however Progent is attracting a quickly expanding team of consulting experts from across the United States. Our virtual office infrastructure does away with regional boundaries that limit the efficiency of traditional business models. We enhance the deal by offering a full employee care program to promote the health and economic welfare of our team members and their relations.
Not only do we have world-class consultants, our sales and operations teams match the high standards that characterizes Progent. These high-performance contributors to Progent’s growth are enabling us to target and land the scores of new customers we are now acquiring every month. Progent recently celebrated the providing of services to our 1,000th client. Just type “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to check for yourself why we are also an effective sales organization.
Having a commitment to technical proficiency is a key for success with us. A job in consulting will push you to learn more than is possible in any other position in information technology. Being confronted by a steady stream of technical challenges is what keeps professional support exciting. Customers choose consultants to perform the “hard stuff.” Creative projects, advanced implementations, puzzling or entrenched issues, and tricky migrations are the foundation for our services daily. With us, you will not stall or be pigeonholed, as is sadly common for computer professionals in ordinary corporate roles. You will awake every morning enthusiastic about the challenges ahead.
On the way, you will work with some wonderful people, both by establishing strong client relationships and by working closely with other Progent consultants, where you will benefit from and add to their growth. Of course, technology is vital, but Progent is a relationship-oriented organization heart and soul. If you don’t offer strong people skills or enjoy working with a varied assortment of personalities, then we are probably a poor fit.
If this sounds right for you, we invite you to talk to us about our vision of the future of network consulting.
Enjoy Lifestyle Benefits and Professional Prowess with Our Advanced Virtual Office Infrastructure Progent believes that a carefully architected and implemented network can be a crucial piece for accelerating a company's success, and Progent applies this belief in our own network infrastructure. We have created a fault-tolerant virtual office network that allows our staff engineers and authorized contractors to offer rapid and effective service, collaborate closely on sophisticated jobs, and gain from career and private maturity by being part of an exciting business ethos of self motivation and freedom.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified experts offer small and medium sized companies computer consulting, maintenance, and repair services for Microsoft SPS 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an advanced portal solution for intelligently connecting people, groups and information. SharePoint Portal Server offers a central location for your workers or clients to connect to, organize, distribute and manipulate useful data, documents, and applications and to communicate with one another. It allows faster and better decisions, more effective sharing across groups and more streamlined business processes. The primary goal of SharePoint Server is to bring together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of information accessible inside and without a business network. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, clients, workgroups and projects with the data they’ve created in a manner that makes data convenient to locate, download and apply.
Progent delivered a wireless networking environment that enabled a school to increase productivity and eliminate the ongoing expense of a dedicated wireline connection. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami wireless 60Mbps bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim bridge is designed for interfacing remote sites up to 2.5 miles apart and can reach even greater ranges. This wireless alternative offered better performance and dependability than recourse to amplifying the 802.11b network, and since it uses the 5.8Ghz spectrum it offered protection against outside interference.
Progent's Microsoft-authorized experts can show you how to evaluate the economic case for implementing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, consult with you on the appropriate edition of SharePoint Portal Server for your circumstances, offer configuration and integration services, help you to set up MS SQL Server as a back-end database, improve your network infrastructure, integrate your standard and custom application software to operate with SharePoint Server 2007, develop a company-wide security plan that incorporates portal technology, and deliver troubleshooting and Help Desk services.
Years of background providing Microsoft support and Cisco technology consulting has enabled Progent to develop an unmatched capability for supporting branch offices that need IT service with the flexibility common to with small organizations but which offers effective communications, complete documentation, and compliance with corporate IT protocols. If your corporation maintains a sales office situated anywhere in California or any region covered by Progent's engineers, Progent can offer a wide range of onsite and on-line network support services and system design expertise.
Progent's Linux support services provide small companies and software developers support for administering and supporting Linux computers that operate with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent can give your business contact with Linux experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM and CISA credentials. This wide array of expertise provides you with an easy single consulting firm to help you build and maintain a protected and reliable cross-platform network and communications solution that supports Linux and Microsoft interoperability by integrating Microsoft Windows with leading Linux variations including RedHat Linux, SUSE, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware.
Cisco Catalyst Switch Information Technology Consulting IT Consulting
Progent offers access to Cisco switches experts to deliver professional network planning and troubleshooting services for information networks based on Cisco switching technology. Cisco switches implement cutting edge Quality of Service to help make sure that data traffic is identified and prioritized, and that congestion is minimized. Configuration of QoS for a Cisco switch is dramatically simplified through automatic QoS, a function that detects Cisco IP phones and automatically programs the switch for the necessary classification and egress queuing. This optimizes data prioritization and network availability without forcing your IT department to implement a complex switch configuration. Through the Cisco Catalyst switches for small and midsized companies, Cisco enables organizations to reap the full advantages of putting intelligent services into their networks. A Cisco network switch makes it practical to install abilities that make the network environment highly available to accommodate real-time needs, expandable to support growth, safe enough to protect sensitive data, and capable of differentiating and managing data flows. Progent’s Cisco-certified IT professionals can show you how to select and deploy a Cisco Ethernet switch to optimize your system's throughput and reliability.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals have 20 years of
experience designing, integrating, and
maintaining messaging systems for
companies in Northern California and across the U.S. Progent
provides economical Microsoft Exchange Servers consulting
services to ensure that your email system
features protection, fault tolerance,
easy access for off-site and mobile users,
efficient administrative tools, and
seamless integration with telephony. Progent
offers consulting and integration services
for Exchange 2007 Server, Exchange 2003 Server, Exchange
2000 Server, and Exchange Server 5.5. Progent
can also assist small or medium businesses to
migrate from Exchange 5.5,
Microsoft Exchange 2000, or Exchange 2003
Server to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
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Progent’s staff of Microsoft and Cisco qualified experts average more than ten years of hands-on industry background, in the trenches of network service, executing a broad variety of technical projects for an extensive mix of businesses. Every Progent consultant shares a proven collection of individual best practices which are combined into shared best practices standards that Progent instills in its support team. This guarantees that you get not only world-class technical help, but also a support engineer with proven methods for applying technical knowledge to repair actual network problems efficiently.
Progent's Microsoft qualified SQL engineers offer an array of services to assist small and midsize businesses to plan, deploy, manage, and repair Microsoft SQL 2008 solutions so that they gain the optimum business benefit from this state-of-the-art relational database platform. Also, Progent offers assistance with network infrastructure, enterprise-wide protection, and application programming to increase the strategic value of your IT network.
Progent's Solaris family support services offer small and mid-size businesses and software developers help with managing and maintaining Sun Solaris systems that run with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent can give your business contact with Solaris consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM credentials. This broad array of expertise offers you an easy single consulting firm to help you build and maintain a secure and reliable mixed-platform network and communications solution that allows Solaris and Microsoft interoperability by integrating Windows with popular versions of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX, and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SUSE Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
The integration requirements of the Microsoft .NET components included with Microsoft Small Business Server calls for an IT consultant with hands-on expertise and extensive knowledge in planning and implementing effective end-to-end information technology solutions. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have extensive experience with the technologies built into Microsoft SBS 2003 and SBS 2000. This expertise assures you success in deploying, administering, and troubleshooting IT solutions based on the Microsoft SBS line of servers and programs.
