Dan graduated in 1990 from the United States Naval Academy with a degree in Electrical Engineering and accepted a commission as a naval officer in the nuclear submarine force. After seven years in the Navy, Dan moved on to the world of defense contracts as a hardware engineer at a military communications site in northern England. He worked on satellite antennas and communications systems gaining valuable experience all while earning his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds. After years of continued success Dan started his first consulting practice at his home with a couple of PCs, a soldering iron, a whiteboard, and lots of crazy ideas. For the first time in his career, his success and income was measured by his ability to do engineering. He also enjoyed the freedom of getting paid for working by the hour allowing him to take off and go skiing when 6 inches of powder dropped out of the sky the night before. Rather, he just didn’t get paid for that day and could work that night or the next Saturday without asking for permission. This idea of personal freedom of being a consultant would shape the future of Cantada and become its core value.

Seth Cantrell co-founded Cantada, Inc. in 2003 with the premise of providing a mission-focused environment where engineers could engineer and make a difference with our customers and themselves. He serves as corporate vice-president where he overseas company recruitment, human resources, employee retention, and corporate finances.

Seth continues to pursue his passion in software design and development. He is an integral part of a mission-focused team developing cutting-edge complex software for some of the most demanding customers in the industry. Throughout his career he has worked on and supported several large software development projects and led teams of engineers focused on providing quality sustainable software solutions.

Seth Cantrell served four years in the United States Air Force where he worked as a technician on the C5A/B Galaxy. Seth began his career working for Ford Aerospace in England. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Maryland University.

After serving 11 years in the United States Air Force Tom received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida. Tom has over 25 years’ experience with RF, Digital, FPGA and Power Circuit design. He has multiple embedded cable modem designs, all of which have passed the Cable Labs certification process. He designed a mixed signal ASIC which was instrumental in shipping over 100,000 monitoring devices into Cable TV outside plant systems. Tom has held the positions of Director of Engineering at Cheetah Technologies, Senior Principal Engineer with Acterna, and currently is a Principal Engineer at Cantada where he is responsible for New Product Development. Tom is leading the development of Cantada’s Satellite equipment suite of products; L-band amplifiers, multiplexors, power insertion and fiber optic transmission modules.