Who We Are
Partnership of Professionals
Cantina has built a partnership of professionals who love technology, want to work on interesting projects, and use best of breed technologies and methodologies to deliver projects efficiently by applying best practices and “common sense” to the business problem at hand. At Cantina, we focus on superb delivery of technology solutions that achieve business results.
Matt Chisholm
Matt co-founded Cantina in 2007 as an emerging technology consultancy. With over twelve years of experience in consulting, technology architecture, development and social networking Matt is building a new model of consultancy that uses the talents of hands-on technologists who understand business goals and concerns. He has worked with consumer-oriented...
Adam Stachelek
Adam is a co-founder and Principal Technical Consultant at Cantina and has over ten years experience in web application design and architecture as well as experience in multimedia production (audio and video) and delivery. At Cantina, Adam has been involved in every manner of project from CMS-driven marketing platforms and...
Chris Lamothe
A developer, designer, and amateur hammer-slinger living in Nahant, Massachusetts, Chris is a Principal at Cantina. A twelve year veteran in the user experience field, Chris has worked with Philips, NESN, Brightcove, Geiger, Harvard Business School, Showtime, Yankee Candle, Cognos, Analog Devices, Fleet Bank, and others. Chris helped to create...
Steve Pember
Steve brings over seven years of experience in a variety of computing fields. The majority of this time has been spent developing rich web applications, but he has also developed mobile phone applications and studied machine learning, data mining, and social network analysis. Over the years he has worked as...
Mark Hewitt
Mark Hewitt is the SVP, Sales & Marketing at Cantina. As such, he is responsible for providing leadership and coordination of Cantina’s sales and marketing functions. Mark is chartered with developing and implementing the sales and marketing growth strategy, analyzing/monitoring results against goals, and providing guidance for future company direction....
David Fox
David has 15+ years of experience in all phases of web application design and architecture on all major platforms, with a concentration in open source technologies. Prior to Cantina, David worked as Director of Technology for Crunch Brand Communications, Senior Web Developer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Lead UI Developer for...
Matt Venables
Matt is a ten-year veteran developer who has spent his professional career developing high-performance web apps as well as desktop and security software. He is expert in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Grails, and JSP as well as Assembly, C, C++, and Java. Matt has been an instrumental developer on projects...
Alec Francesconi
Alec is SVP, Client Services at Cantina. Alec brings a decade of internet consulting experience to Cantina and is passionate about helping clients understand, design and execute the right technical solution for their specific need. In his time at Cantina, Alec has managed efforts for Putnam Investments, CUNA Mutual, Vista...
Adam Kenger
With over eight years of experience as a web-application developer, database administrator, system admin, and project lead, Adam has worked to build custom applications for some of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. While specializing in ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS and other related web technologies, Adam...
Aaron Stevenson
Aaron, a veteran Java developer with over seven years experience, has worked in a number of different industries in a variety of roles. During this time, he has solved business problems in the financial, insurance, retail, document management, and education space using a wide variety of technologies. His current passions...
Matthew Crist
Often going by the nickname "Hondo", Matthew Crist is an innovative user experience developer at Cantina with a passion for good design and simplicity. Matthew enjoys working across the entire range of user experience from conception and design to efficient development during implementation. He has been helping companies craft solutions...
George White
George set out to be a zoologist and now he is a fifteen year veteran with broad experience in software development and architecture. Go figure. He has worked in many domains, including Web applications, mobile platforms, content management, internet-connected desktop applications, multimedia, video, networking and systems architecture. George unintentionally but...
Dan Barron
Dan's past in the Web sphere is a convoluted journey from an early exposure to Perl and CGI through PHP's early days and later a firm basis in Java and ActionScript. Years later he discovered Ruby on Rails and learned that he actually can be happy doing Web Development. He...
Allison Sigrist
Allison comes to Cantina with over 10 years of front-end web development and consulting experience. Several years ago she was bitten by the open-source bug and became a convert, particularly to the Drupal CMS, which has since led her to focus on content strategy as a whole. Regardless of platform,...
Mitchel Ahern
Mitchel has been in digital marketing and communications for a very long time with titles like SYSOP, Webmaster, Digital Media Producer, Product Manager, and Director of Communications for companies such as One to One and Eastern Acoustic Works and clients like Aegon, UPS and Royal...
Jay Dolan
Jay has 9 years of professional software development experience, and 5 years in consulting. His areas of expertise include enterprise content management, e-commerce, and media and publishing. He has consulted for PUMA, The Washington Times, and The Limited Brands among others. Jay has an affinity...
Ian Cox
Ian brings over eight years of account management, strategy and technical consulting experience to Cantina as a Project Management Principal. Prior to joining Cantina, Ian led research-driven IT and Marketing-focused strategy consulting projects at Forrester Research working with customers such as Marriott, InterContinental Hotels Group, Penske and UPS. At Endeca...
Dan Adams
A self-described generalist, Dan brings a passion for all aspects of the software engineering craft. Dan worked at iFactory where he served as Principal Software Engineer and head of engineering. Additionally, he acted as technical lead and architect for iFactory's online publishing platform as well as numerous client-services engagements in...
Andrew Paradise
Andrew has 10 years experience seeking out and conquering software challenges. Andrew studied Computer Science and Fine Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he learned to work both smarter and harder. As for technology, he appreciates the expressiveness of Ruby as well as the structure of Java. When pressed, he...
Tim Wagner
Tim thinks of himself as a passionate problem solver. He has been seeking out and solving business problems for over 7 years, creating solutions for companies both large and small. Particularly enjoying the fast paced environments of startups, Tim’s last role was as Lead Software Architect at Powerhouse Dynamics, developing...
Alicia Sedlock
After almost choosing to follow a career path in forensic science, Alicia realized that at the end of the day, building websites is way more fun and satisfying than writing lab reports. She strives to create simple, usable applications to help make the web a happier place. Her expertise lies...
Amber Heinbockel
Amber Heinbockel is an award-winning designer and creative director with more then 10 years of strategic interactive experience. Making creative leaps built on solid insight and a foundation in front-end development; Amber designs for the digital space by providing end-to-end creative services from branding to highly developed interactive experiences. Form...
Daniel Bostwick
Daniel is an Associate Technical Consultant at Cantina. He recently graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, and has been programming for over ten years. He started programming in C++, quickly decided he preferred garbage collection in Java, and late fell in love...
Doug Reynolds
Doug brings over 15 years of technology, marketing and project management experience to Cantina. He has led large-scale technology and marketing engagements for business-to-business and consumer clients such as Boston Scientific, The Analysis Group, Bromberg & Sunstein, YAHOO!, Bostonian Shoes, J. Baker, Fidelity, Manulife, Cambridge Trust Company and Harvard Business...
Milton Pacheco
Milton is responsible for the creation of online visual design and development including visual concept, user experience, front-end development, interaction design and typography for the Internet and interactive platforms. He is known for being able to effectively communicate and coordinate with information architects, writers and production artists to ensure that...
Julian Flaks
Julian has been a web developer since 1999 with over 10 years experience in the internet and JVM technologies in particular. He is passionate about frameworks and thinks Spring is a thing of great beauty. He has coded projects in a variety of industries for clients that include Lycos, Commerzbank,...
Rick Baccari
Rick graduated from Bentley University. He is something of a startup maven after spending almost a decade working with them. He started his career with Constant Contact as a communications consultant where he helped establish both a marketing program and an inside sales team. Since then he has spent the...
Janet Riley
Janet is a Technical Consultant at Cantina. A polyglot programmer, she has spent 15+ years coding in Java, PHP, Javascript, C++, and C in the Internet and academic sectors. Although she has an MS in Computer Science from Boston University, she is secretly a liberal arts fan. She has...
Conor Sheehan
Conor has spent his professional life dedicated to improving the Web. Prior to Cantina, he founded a small web team, serving clients to provide web applications, content management, and social networking. A man of many hats, Conor has played roles in design, development, marketing, client service, and leadership. His passion,...