A local IT consulting firm has packed up its computers and relocated to St. Paul, where it joins a growing cluster of technology companies in the Capital City.
Instrumental, Inc.,
announced last week that it's moved from Bloomington to a new headquarters at 1450 Energy Park Drive in St. Paul. The company, which has about 15 employees, specializes in consulting for high-performance computing and data storage projects.
"We wanted to be in this cluster of technology companies like Cray and Lawson," says Bill Zwicky, vice president for operations. "There's a lot of access to universities just within a five mile radius of our new St. Paul location."
Instrumental was founded as a software company in 1991 and later transformed itself into a vendor-neutral consulting company. Its management team includes veterans of Cray Research in St. Paul.
The company's clients range from U.S. intelligence and defense agencies to Fortune 1,000 companies. CEO Henry Newman said they've had some "significant" wins in the past 45 days, but added that he wasn't able to disclose either of two new contracts yet.
Instrumental was recently
awarded a contract to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration design, develop, and implement a data storage system so that historical weather data is safe and accessible to weather and climate researchers.
Source: Bill Zwicky, Instrumental
Writer:
Dan Haugen