# Tom Evslin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tom_Evslin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tom_Evslin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Evslin > Source revision: 1354229915 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Tom Evslin** is a retired American businessman who is the developer and publisher of GoldenDomeVT.com, a free public website containing SmartTranscripts of meetings of the 25 standing committees of the Vermont Legislature.[1][2][3] He was the founder and Chair of NG Advantage LLC, the first company in the United States to truck [CNG](/source/CNG) to large users beyond the reach of natural gas pipelines. Evslin previously served as Chief Technology Officer for the [State of Vermont](/source/Vermont).[4] Before that he was Chief Recovery Officer responsible for coordinating the State's use of federal stimulus money under the [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act](/source/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act) (ARRA). He agreed to work for minimum wage and return that money to the State.[5] Evslin was the co-founder (with his wife Mary), chairman, and CEO of [ITXC Corp](/source/ITXC_Corporation), a provider of [VoIP](/source/VoIP).[6] The company grew from a startup in 1997 to one of the world's largest carriers of any kind by 2004 when it was acquired. In 2002 [Deloitte and Touche](/source/Deloitte_and_Touche) named ITXC as the fastest growing technology company in North America.[7] He was responsible for the conception, launch, and operation of [AT&T](/source/AT%26T)'s first ISP, [AT&T WorldNet Service](/source/AT%26T_WorldNet_Service). At [Microsoft](/source/Microsoft), he was responsible for the server products now in [Microsoft BackOffice](/source/Microsoft_BackOffice) including [Microsoft Exchange](/source/Microsoft_Exchange_Server). Key assets of the Evslins' software company, Solutions, Inc., were sold to Microsoft. In 1981 and 1982 Evslin was Secretary of Transportation for the State of Vermont. He was a [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) candidate for the [United States Senate](/source/United_States_Senate) from Vermont in the [1980 Senate election](/source/1980_United_States_Senate_election_in_Vermont). ## Personal life Evslin is the son of author and playwright [Bernard Evslin](/source/Bernard_Evslin) and author and teacher Dorothy Evslin. A novel by Evslin, *hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble* was the fiction runner-up for the 2006 [Lulu Blooker Prize](/source/Lulu_Blooker_Prize).[8] He graduated from [Harvard College](/source/Harvard_College).[9] ## References 1. Perron, Darren (December 17, 2024). ["New website promises inside look at Vermont Legislature"](https://www.wcax.com/2024/12/17/new-website-promises-inside-look-vermont-legislature/). *WCAX* 1. Bradley, Pat (January 2, 2025). ["New website aims to increase transparency and access to all Vermont legislative committee meetings"](https://www.wamc.org/news/2025-01-02/new-website-aims-to-increase-transparency-and-access-to-all-vermont-legislative-committee-meetings). *WAMC* 1. Robinson, Shaun (January 15, 2025). ["Final Reading: New website aims to help Vermont's Statehouse press corps"](https://vtdigger.org/2025/01/15/final-reading-new-website-aims-to-help-vermonts-statehouse-press-corps/). *VTDigger* 1. Hirschfeld, Peter (May 28, 2012). ["Company to deliver natural gas in Vt."](https://www.timesargus.com/news/company-to-deliver-natural-gas-in-vt/article_a2e04b05-3ce1-515e-b8c7-4727c0ef2dac.html). *Times Argus* 1. Hallenbeck, Terri (March 7, 2009). ["State stimulus czar to work for peanuts, then return them"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-burlington-free-press-state-stimulus/172884545/). *Burlington Free Press*. Gannett. Retrieved March 12, 2009. 1. Brown. Eryn (September 29, 1997). ["An AT&T Veteran Makes a Bet on the Net"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110606044120/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/09/29/232061/index.htm). *[Fortune](/source/Fortune_(magazine))*. Archived from [the original](https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/09/29/232061/index.htm) on June 6, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2008. 1. "ITXC named The Fastest Growing Technology Company in North America on the 2002 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500". *M2 Presswire*. October 17, 2002. 1. Kornblum, Janet (April 3, 2006). "The Blooker awards, for books arising from blogs ; First prize goes to 'Julie and Julia'". *USA Today*. p. D7. 1. Edelstein, Art (November 29, 1987). ["Your Next Software May Say Made in Montpelier"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/rutland-daily-herald-tom-evslin/172885042/). *Rutland Daily Herald*. p. 4C. ## External links - [GoldenDomeVT.com](https://www.goldendomevt.com/) - [hackoff.com Tom Evslin's blook (Creative Commons)](http://www.hackoff.com) - Evslin source on github: [https://github.com/tevslin](https://github.com/tevslin) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tom Evslin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Evslin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Evslin?action=history)). 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