Advanced Systems Group (thinkASG) Career Opportunities
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Opportunity Snapshot
This position offers you the opportunity to be part of the ground floor team launching a new and strategically important Cisco practice. You will work with the latest technologies as you take on a variety of challenges at diverse client companies. While you'll definitely spend a good deal of time at customer sites, our focus is regional and there will be very little overnight travel. thinkASG is a strong, profitable, and growing company, but we're still small enough that you'll enjoy a family feeling in our culture and the chance to influence and impact the decision-making process. In addition to being a Cisco Silver Certified Partner, we're also an IBM Premier Business Partner and VMware Authorized Consulting Partner.
You'll combine your technical expertise and customer-facing business savvy to assess network needs and recommend solutions. To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have an active CCIE and solid recent experience with customer engagements in telecom/network design and planning. We're looking for a professional with strong face-to-face delivery skills and a demonstrated ability to deliver against the solution and timeline you recommend. Our preference is that you bring a background in routers and switches, security, storage, and/or voice technologies.
At thinkASG, our mission statement is Delivering Measurable Value by Integrating Technology Solutions Through our People, Process and with Principles. thinkASG grows clients' businesses through innovative IT strategy, implementation, and support. But above all, our team is passionate about partnership. As a result, market-leaders in all areas of business have come to regard us as knowledgeable, dedicated and, ultimately, indispensable partners in growth. thinkASG provides the human drive to lead any company's next successful technology implementation.
What Else You'll Bring to the Table
The ideal candidate will have at least five years of recent field experience; at the same time, we are open to CCIEs with less experience as long as they have strong customer facing skills. In addition to the qualifications detailed above, you'll need:
Solid network design knowledge and experience.
Experience with all or most of the following:
Transmission (SDH, DWDM, Frame relay, ATM) and wireless.
Cisco product portfolio and configuration of Cisco.
Security components and concepts including firewall.
Convergence (VOIP, video conferencing, H.323, SIP).
Stability through diversity -- our broad service offering across diverse industries has enabled us to continue to expand even while other companies are downsizing. Our clients represent the life sciences, telecommunications, automotive, retail, and entertainment and media industries, and we provide solutions in networking, green IT and virtualization, unified communications, IT security, business continuity, regulatory compliance, hardware and software implementation, ERP systems management, and more.
Growing practice -- we're committed to setting this new Cisco practice up right and growing it as a key part of our overall company growth strategy. As the practice grows, we'll need proven leaders to drive it.
Great work environment -- with just over 30 employees, thinkASG has a collaborative culture in which everyone's ideas are welcome. We bring an entrepreneurial spirit to achieving results, and we have fun in the process. The team also engages in community activities, supporting the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Toys for Tots, and other worthy organizations.
Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary and bonus incentive program, we offer a comprehensive benefits package.
More About Your Role
If you're a good fit for this position, you already know most of what this job entails. However, to be sure we're providing a complete picture, here are some details.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will become part of our Professional Services organization and the newly formed Cisco practice, a small but growing team. At any given time you can expect to be involved with multiple engagements and projects, from one-day system "health checks" to complete cutovers lasting several months. You may handle smaller engagements as an individual contributor or you may be part of a team; in some cases you will be the single thinkASG team member at the customer's site. However, you always will be backed by our solid team: the average thinkASG professional has spent 15 years at the front lines of the IT industry.
We are a consultative integrator, recommending solutions (not necessarily products), and we'll look to you to develop specific, targeted solutions. Your activities will include:
Developing network designs from high-level architecture to specific end-to-end component interconnectivity and configuration.
Conducting and participating in design reviews.
Interpreting network diagrams and documentation.
Acting as design authority on a broad range of datacomms, technologies, and protocols, including transmission, WAN, LAN, security, and wireless.
Keys to Success
This is very much a customer-facing role, and you'll interact with senior executives at client sites on a regular basis. You'll need to understand your clients' overall business goals and objectives and how the network fits into that big picture. You also will need to be articulate and able to translate technical information into language that is accessible to non-technical users, whether face-to-face or in formal presentations.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the minimum qualifications, we want to hear from you!
Who We Are
As a trusted advisor to our clients for over 14 years, thinkASG combines business and industry knowledge with infrastructure expertise to create solutions that deliver real business value.
Our primary mission is to understand and improve customers' businesses in order to help them create and sustain a competitive advantage. To that end, we develop and implement results-oriented solutions that address high-level business and technology challenges and goals.
We use a unique methodology that focuses on up front strategy, fast and effective implementation and knowledge transfer to ensure long-term success. Leveraging a proprietary four-part process, our experts diagnose your challenges, develop an appropriate solution, deploy it quickly and provide the detailed documentation you need to help ensure ongoing success. What's more, we offer top-of-the-line customer support.
With thinkASG, you can improve the return on your technology investments by integrating operations, optimizing workflow and enhancing your overall business. And, with our unique blend of business acumen and technical expertise, you can increase the value of your existing assets while growing your business. Our team is committed to helping you achieve more efficient operations and processes while reducing your technology management costs and business risks.
Opportunity Snapshot
This position offers you the opportunity to be part of the ground floor team launching a new and strategically important Cisco practice. You will work with the latest technologies as you take on a variety of challenges at diverse client companies. While you'll definitely spend a good deal of time at customer sites, our focus is regional and there will be very little overnight travel. thinkASG is a strong, profitable, and growing company, but we're still small enough that you'll enjoy a family feeling in our culture and the chance to influence and impact the decision-making process. In addition to being a Cisco Silver Certified Partner, we're also an IBM Premier Business Partner and VMware Authorized Consulting Partner.
You'll combine your technical expertise and customer-facing business savvy to assess network needs and recommend solutions. To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have an active CCIE and solid recent experience with customer engagements in telecom/network design and planning. We're looking for a professional with strong face-to-face delivery skills and a demonstrated ability to deliver against the solution and timeline you recommend. Our preference is that you bring a background in routers and switches, security, storage, and/or voice technologies.
At thinkASG, our mission statement is Delivering Measurable Value by Integrating Technology Solutions Through our People, Process and with Principles. thinkASG grows clients' businesses through innovative IT strategy, implementation, and support. But above all, our team is passionate about partnership. As a result, market-leaders in all areas of business have come to regard us as knowledgeable, dedicated and, ultimately, indispensable partners in growth. thinkASG provides the human drive to lead any company's next successful technology implementation.
What Else You'll Bring to the Table
The ideal candidate will have at least five years of recent field experience; at the same time, we are open to CCIEs with less experience as long as they have strong customer facing skills. In addition to the qualifications detailed above, you'll need:
Solid network design knowledge and experience.
Experience with all or most of the following:
Transmission (SDH, DWDM, Frame relay, ATM) and wireless.
Cisco product portfolio and configuration of Cisco.
Security components and concepts including firewall.
Convergence (VOIP, video conferencing, H.323, SIP).
Stability through diversity -- our broad service offering across diverse industries has enabled us to continue to expand even while other companies are downsizing. Our clients represent the life sciences, telecommunications, automotive, retail, and entertainment and media industries, and we provide solutions in networking, green IT and virtualization, unified communications, IT security, business continuity, regulatory compliance, hardware and software implementation, ERP systems management, and more.
Growing practice -- we're committed to setting this new Cisco practice up right and growing it as a key part of our overall company growth strategy. As the practice grows, we'll need proven leaders to drive it.
Great work environment -- with just over 30 employees, thinkASG has a collaborative culture in which everyone's ideas are welcome. We bring an entrepreneurial spirit to achieving results, and we have fun in the process. The team also engages in community activities, supporting the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Toys for Tots, and other worthy organizations.
Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary and bonus incentive program, we offer a comprehensive benefits package.
More About Your Role
If you're a good fit for this position, you already know most of what this job entails. However, to be sure we're providing a complete picture, here are some details.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will become part of our Professional Services organization and the newly formed Cisco practice, a small but growing team. At any given time you can expect to be involved with multiple engagements and projects, from one-day system "health checks" to complete cutovers lasting several months. You may handle smaller engagements as an individual contributor or you may be part of a team; in some cases you will be the single thinkASG team member at the customer's site. However, you always will be backed by our solid team: the average thinkASG professional has spent 15 years at the front lines of the IT industry.
We are a consultative integrator, recommending solutions (not necessarily products), and we'll look to you to develop specific, targeted solutions. Your activities will include:
Developing network designs from high-level architecture to specific end-to-end component interconnectivity and configuration.
Conducting and participating in design reviews.
Interpreting network diagrams and documentation.
Acting as design authority on a broad range of datacomms, technologies, and protocols, including transmission, WAN, LAN, security, and wireless.
Keys to Success
This is very much a customer-facing role, and you'll interact with senior executives at client sites on a regular basis. You'll need to understand your clients' overall business goals and objectives and how the network fits into that big picture. You also will need to be articulate and able to translate technical information into language that is accessible to non-technical users, whether face-to-face or in formal presentations.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the minimum qualifications, we want to hear from you!
Who We Are
As a trusted advisor to our clients for over 14 years, thinkASG combines business and industry knowledge with infrastructure expertise to create solutions that deliver real business value.
Our primary mission is to understand and improve customers' businesses in order to help them create and sustain a competitive advantage. To that end, we develop and implement results-oriented solutions that address high-level business and technology challenges and goals.
We use a unique methodology that focuses on up front strategy, fast and effective implementation and knowledge transfer to ensure long-term success. Leveraging a proprietary four-part process, our experts diagnose your challenges, develop an appropriate solution, deploy it quickly and provide the detailed documentation you need to help ensure ongoing success. What's more, we offer top-of-the-line customer support.
With thinkASG, you can improve the return on your technology investments by integrating operations, optimizing workflow and enhancing your overall business. And, with our unique blend of business acumen and technical expertise, you can increase the value of your existing assets while growing your business. Our team is committed to helping you achieve more efficient operations and processes while reducing your technology management costs and business risks.
Advanced Systems Group (THINKASG) is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
