Posts Tagged ‘People’

Finding the Right Mobile Technology Skills Cantina’s focus on the multi-channel mobile experience gives us insight into the state of emerging and mobile technology skills in the marketplace, and they are hard to find. Overworked developers are finding it difficult to develop new competencies in responsive design best [...]

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 wants to help make the web fun, exciting, and usable both for developers and users, [...]

Nancy comes to Cantina as a graduate of St. Lawrence University with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics her studies included Javascript, HTML5, CSS and PHP. She mastered Drupal during a research project at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Nancy is currently focused on mobile [...]

Dmitri comes to Cantina as a graduate of Bridgewater State University as a Bachelor of Computer Science. An enthusiast of database systems and natural user interfaces, Dmitri cut his teeth on multitouch gesture-driven applications, with work featured at trade show booths of industry leaders country-wide. Applied a long [...]

Cantinistas all seem to have one thing in common, they’re interested in things and actively doing them. Our team includes tri-atheletes, bicyclers, beer bloggers, dietary activists, musicians, producers and all sorts of folks, including artists. Our Director of Communications, Mitchel Ahern, has brought a gallery sensibility to the [...]

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, going so far as to record a remix of the Drupal Song in tribute. [...]

Without customers, web applications are doomed for failure. We tend to think of the users of your applications as, well, users. We should however treat them as customers. Projects have success metrics, and a lot of these metrics are based on customer interactions. These metrics may include something [...]

At Cantina our clients are usually large organizations who need to get something technical done. These projects often have to do with mobility, apps and adapting to fast moving technological change. A general problem these organizations have is that their in-house teams are already so busy that getting [...]

Catherine Toupence joins Cantina as our newest Principal Consultant, Program Management. Catherine joins the Cantina team as a Principal Consultant on the Project Management team and is a certified Scrum Master. Her 12 years draws from both the agency and client side spanning an array of industries and [...]

Tim Wagner joins Cantina as our newest technical consultant. 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 [...]