About Progent
Progent's Management Team
Excellent IT Service Takes Teamwork: Progent's Management Team
Progent's management team includes industry veterans with decades of experience providing network consulting, technical support, and strategic IT planning to organizations ranging from startups to global enterprises. Great service requires great people, and Progent is proud to have assembled a management team able to provide businesses with the best service value in the industry.
Les Kent, Founder and President
Les Kent has a 35-year track record of successful technology integration, business management, marketing, and operations. During this time he has demonstrated a talent for developing complex computer and network based technical solutions while working as a system architect, software developer, project manager, implementation expert and troubleshooter. Prior to starting Progent, Les was most recently the President of Allin Corporation, a Pittsburgh-based, publicly-traded technology integration company with over 150 employees and offices in four states. As a technical editor of InfoWorld magazine and a member of the magazine's Review Board from 1991 to 1995, Les published 34 reviews and technology articles. Les developed the interactive television systems used in hundreds of hotels worldwide, including the Las Vegas MGM Grand, at the time the world's largest hotel. Les was the technical architect for the application that won Microsoft's "Best Application of the Year Award" in 1996. In 1988 Les designed and developed a real-time multi-tasking operating system deployed worldwide by Siemens AG, Germany, for industrial control systems.
Tony Ciangiarulo, VP Sales
Tony Ciangiarulo has worked in the IT industry for two decades in a variety of positions including technical training, project management, IT consulting, engineering management, sales, and sales management. Immediately prior joining Progent, Tony was VP of Sales and Services for a technology integration firm and prior to this he delivered technical services for a publicly-traded IT integration company based in Pittsburgh. In the course of Tony's career he has gone from hands-on engineer to his current role in sales and management, and during that time he has earned information technology credentials that include Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), and Citrix Certified Instructor (CCI). Tony's combination of technical expertise and business savvy embodies Progent's commitment to providing our clients with IT solutions that significantly increase the business value of their information networks.
Tom Anderson, VP Consulting Services
Tom Anderson has over 25 years of experience in the computer industry and has set up and managed IT support organizations for global enterprises. Tom has worked with companies of all sizes to develop comprehensive growth strategies aimed at maximizing the business value of information networks. Tom has developed business plans and technology road maps for numerous startups, and he has also consulted with Fortune 500 companies to develop long-term IT strategies and disaster recovery/business continuity plans. Tom has extensive experience with key technologies ranging from ERP and CRM applications to virtualization and fault-tolerant infrastructure and understands the "big picture": how to leverage computer technology to deliver better business outcomes. Tom's rare combination of business sense, technical know-how, and people skills makes him the ideal person to sharpen the focus of Progent's consulting experts on delivering best-of-breed business solutions.
Beverly Katz, VP of Finance
Beverly Katz has over 30 years of bookkeeping/accounting experience, including 15 years in the position of Controller. She has worked for non-profit organizations, public and privately owned companies, as well as the military. She assisted 29 California counties with conference budgets, including accurate contract files for each, bookkeeping for over 100 projects, and managed all financial responsibility for two corporations at one time. She has set up company policies and procedures, monthly financial reports, company-wide budgets, audits, cost and expense control, staff management, weekly payroll, responsible for multiple bank accounts, all phases of General Ledger, Chart of Accounts, AP, AR, retirement and HSA accounts, employee health coverage and benefits, Human Resources, personnel files, company insurance, and worked closely with DMV and Preferred Alliance drug programs. Beverly's combination of broad task-relevant expertise, a strong work ethic, team-player and communication skills along with her dedication and commitment personifies the qualities that allow Progent's financial structure and support to run with precision.
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CCIE Certified Meraki MS 300 Series Switch Specialists
Meraki Switch Network Consultants
Cisco's Meraki line of access and distribution switches are intended for sites that go from small branches to large campuses. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants can provide cost-effective online expertise to assist you to design and implement an efficient network solution that incorporates Meraki switches, simplify network monitoring and administration with Meraki's cloud-centric management tools, define policies to ensure security and compliance, develop and validate a disaster preparedness plan, and resolve issues related to any aspect of your Meraki deployment. Progent can also help your company to integrate Meraki switches with Cisco's Nexus or Catalyst data center switches and with Meraki Wi-Fi APs to create a cohesive networking infrastructure.
ProSight NinjaOne Patch Management Professional
NinjaOne Desktop Monitoring Specialist
ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM is Progent's network, server and endpoint remote monitoring managed service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to help keep your IT system running efficiently by tracking the health of critical devices.
ProSight Email Directory Harvest Protection Consultancy
Consultant ProSight Email Spoofing Protection
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter.
Anti-Virus Installation support
Antispam Support
E-Mail Guard by Postini offers constantly upgraded spam and virus blocking, content filtering, and protection from e-mail-borne DHA attacks and DSA attacks. Progent is a Postini partner and support firm. If your organization is too small to purchase for a standard Postini license, you can still get the use of Postini's Perimeter Manager technology via Progent's E-Mail Guard spam filtering and virus protection aggregation program. Progent's certified e-mail security professionals can help you create an email safety strategy that includes anti-spam and virus defense technologies and policies.
Multi-factor Authentication IT Services
Remote Consulting 3-2-1 Backup Rule
Progent recommends five key network security practices for companies with a minimal IT budget.
Cloud Protection for Email Professionals
ProSight Email Guard Spam Filtering Services Specialists
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.
3504 wireless controller Online Help
Specialists 8540 wireless controller
Cisco's Catalyst family of wireless controllers simplify the management of Wi-Fi LANs by unifying the provisioning and management of Wi-Fi APs, optimizing wireless performance by reducing the effect of radio frequency congestion, enhancing wireless uptime with rapid auto-failover, and strengthening security by detecting cyber threats and filtering network traffic based on user type and locale. Progent can help you to deploy Cisco Wi-Fi controllers to manage and monitor wireless networks of any size. Progent can help you to maintain and troubleshoot your current Cisco-based Wi-Fi environment or carry out an efficient upgrade to Cisco's modern wireless controller technology.
Microsoft Certified Exchange Server 2007 Specialists
Exchange 2007 Online Technical Support
Progent's expert consultants can help you design and deploy an efficient in-place Exchange Server 2007 migration plan that avoids productivity disruption, reduces ongoing service demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. For complex multi-server or multi-site migrations, Progent offers the experience to finish your move rapidly and affordably. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 support, repair, and consulting services include expertise with the integration of third-party enhancements of Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server that are in keeping with your business needs.
Expert Training Consulting
Computer Consultant Information Transfer
Progent practices knowledge transfer from Progent's consultants to clients. By educating customers to deal with technical issues that are within their scope, Progent is able to concentrate on offering hard-to-find skills where Progent has little competition. Small companies who utilize trusted independent service providers or who maintain internal IT personnel benefit when Progent transfers information about new technology and tested methodologies to make their networks more reliable, secure, and efficient.
Hyper-V 3.0 Shared Nothing Live Migration Help and Support
Professionals Hyper-V 3.0 Virtual Server
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V enhances virtualization in important areas including multitenancy, agile infrastructure, cloud readiness, scalability and performance, and fault tolerance. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist your business to take advantage of Hyper-V to deploy and maintain virtual servers to reduce network expenses and improve availability.
2500 Wireless Controller Network Consulting
5520 wireless controller Network Consulting
Cisco's Catalyst Wi-Fi controllers streamline the administration of wireless networks by unifying the provisioning and management of wireless APs, tuning Wi-Fi performance by reducing the effect of radio frequency congestion, enhancing Wi-Fi uptime with rapid auto-failover, and hardening security by detecting threats and analyzing network traffic based on user type and locale. Progent can help you to deploy Cisco Wi-Fi controller appliances to manage and monitor Wi-Fi networks of all sizes. Progent can help you to maintain and debug your current Cisco-based Wi-Fi solution or carry out a smooth upgrade to Cisco's latest Wi-Fi controller solutions.
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