John Ballman is currently retired after the sale of his business to ADT Commercial. He and his wife Deborah, of over thirty years of marriage, spent the last twenty years building their fire alarm company from two people to over a hundred employees. At the time of sale, their company FAS Systems Group LLC dba Systems Group provided Fire Alarm, CCTV, Card Access, Security, Sprinkler, and emergency “DAS” radio systems. John was a licensed journeyman electrician and a N.I.C.E.T level IV in Fire Alarm Systems. Special projects that Systems Group successfully tackled were the Utah Data Center Project, over 20 High Rise Buildings, and the Control of the Suppression System retrofitted into the Johnson/Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel, a worldwide first. John now lives in Thornton Colorado and enjoys being a husband, father, and is studying to achieve his private pilot’s license.

To learn more about this project just Google "Eisenhower Tunnel Suppression System".  There you will find several YouTube videos and a lot of other data concerning the project.