Public Computing Consultants
The best technology decisions begin with a clear understanding of the work itself: what people are trying to accomplish, what stands in their way, and what should be different when the problem is solved.
What does tomorrow morning look like?
⌖ What are people doing more of?
⌖ What are people doing less of?
⌖ What are they no longer doing at all?
⌖ What changed about staffing, handoffs, decisions, or risk?
⌖ What became possible that wasn't possible before?
Public Computing Consultants was founded on a simple idea: technology is most valuable when it helps people and institutions do consequential work better.
We don't begin with technology for technology's sake. We begin with the organization - its people, responsibilities, constraints, data, risks, and ambitions - and build outward from there.
Built to connect Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute with the city of Troy below.
Colin has spent his career working where technology, organizations, and people collide.
Trained as a sociologist and scholar of science and technology, he brings an unusual perspective to technology consulting: systems don't succeed because they're technically elegant. They succeed because they work in the real world—within actual organizations, with actual people, constraints, incentives, histories, and responsibilities.
His work spans program and project leadership, data strategy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, process redesign, and the decidedly unglamorous business of making complicated systems work when the textbook answer isn't enough.
Before founding Public Computing Consultants, Colin taught sociology at the college level and built a career leading complex public-sector technology initiatives. That combination still shapes PCC's approach: understand the work first, ask better questions, and only then decide what technology belongs in the answer.
Noelle has spent her career making complex organizations work at the human level, where processes, people, responsibilities, and competing priorities meet.
Her background spans healthcare, legal administration, executive support, and business operations. She has managed staffing, payroll, procurement, facilities, executive schedules, and day-to-day organizational logistics, while also analyzing existing business processes and helping teams design better ways of working.
At PCC, Noelle brings that operational perspective to every engagement. She focuses on the practical questions that determine whether a solution will actually succeed: Who does the work? What do they need? Where does the process break down? And what has to happen after the consultants leave?
You don't need to know the solution yet.
Tell us what's difficult, what's getting in the way, or what needs to change.
We'll help you figure out what comes next.