Tim Panton

Current

• CEO at PhoneFromHere.com
• Owner at Westhawk Ltd

Past

• Technical Director at Westpoint Ltd
• Consultant at West Consulting BV

Recommended

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Connections

185 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• Call Me FREE
• Westhawk Ltd
• Phonefromhere.com

Tim Panton’s Summary

Solutions developer, using robust and suitable tools to
achive the customer's goals through innovation and careful design.
Experience with gateway projects (e.g. NPfIT and Englandnet)
and complex Oracle databases.
Ability to hit hard deadlines (e.g. satellite launch window)
I'm currently interested in profiting from the technology
disruption that the Asterisk open source PBX will cause,
especially in the area of online social networks, blending
web and person to person speech.

Tim Panton’s Specialties:

Asterisk, IAX, VoIP, Java, XML, XSLT, SQL
Network and systems design.
Network security.

Tim Panton’s Experience

• CEO

  PhoneFromHere.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (9 months)

  PhoneFromHere.com is a startup company delivering instant, verbal communication to Web users and communities with no requirement for the end-user to surrender personal information use a phone or download software. The service includes an end-user analysis and custom integration into an existing Website. PhoneFromHere.com gives Web users the opportunity to leverage person-to-person speech within the context of a Website - increasing traffic and stickiness by delivering worry-free, live voice chat opportunities.

• Owner

  Westhawk Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1984 — Present (23 years 11 months)

  Westhawk is a software and network consultancy. We mostly do fixed price
  software and netword development projects, often integrating into telephony or other legacy systems. My role is as architect and prototyper.

• Technical Director

  Westpoint Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  November 2001 — February 2005 (3 years 4 months)

  I was lead architect for Westpoint's network security scanning service.
  We designed a scalable architecture of scanning equipment backend database and reporting tools which has served as a basis for Westpoint's continuing success.

• Consultant

  West Consulting BV

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  January 1993 — October 1996 (3 years 10 months)

  I worked on a number of projects for West Consulting: Government ID card printing, Infrared space telescope observation scheduler, SNMP stack for UPSes, secure web hosting, secure online banking. These projects were in Java, C, C++ - mostly on solaris or HPUX, utilizing the PSS 05 project development methodology.

Additional Information

Tim Panton’s Websites:

• Call Me FREE
• Westhawk Ltd
• Phonefromhere.com

Tim Panton’s Groups:

etel 2006, astridev con atlanta, Northwest startup, web ventures 2008

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Tim Panton’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
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• business deals
• reference requests
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