Ken Palin – Founder of FLOORWORKS, Facility Restoration and Construction Services, and The Grey Haired Guys. Ken participated in construction projects from the age of fourteen. As teenagers, our family owned a masonry company constructing and repairing brick and concrete block buildings to start, then contracted for all the masonry work on ESPN’s very first building located one mile from our home in Bristol, CT. A few years later, our family purchased a scaffolding company and started constructing, leasing, and selling scaffold all over New England, a perfect complement to masonry work. As the business grew, the company contracted to erect scaffolding and conducted repairs at numerous colleges, churches, Yale University in New Haven, West Point Academy, Paul Newman’s’ Restaurant, and Phil Donahue’s’ Estate, to name a few.

In later years, Ken relocated to Dallas and invested five years as a commercial project manager installing concrete floor coatings in restaurants, manufacturing plants and airplane hangars. Residential floor coatings and swimming pool concrete coatings were installed under the name of FLOORWORKS. Ken invested the next five years as a project manager for a commercial paving company. In 1999, Ken founded Facility Restoration and Construction Services, a commercial general contracting company.

John Costa, Project Estimator, Superintendent of Projects
A trained electrician from his military service in the U.S. Navy, and OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration) trained and certified, John has a focused background of residential and commercial remodeling for 38 years. He progressed in his career mastering several trades and is talented in managing all phases of any size construction project. His resume includes overseeing the Facility Department at Rice University for 5 (five) years. His staff included an excess of 144 employees.

Recently, John has traveled the USA managing remodels and “out of ground” stores for Pizza Hut, Mattress Giant, Save-a-lot, Quik Trip Gas Stations, and Chili’s to name a few. John has decided to remain local with his family and limit long term builds out of town.

Richard Switzer, Project Manager of Special Projects, has been known for 24 (twenty-four) years as a master and “expert” in the field of specialty contracting. Restoration projects over the last (7) seven years include water leak investigation and repair, structural consulting and restoration, commercial concrete floor and specialty coatings applicator, expansion joint repair / caulking / leveling, and historical structure restoration.

Martina Kolmeder, Upon receiving her physics degree from SMU she was an Introduction to Programming instructor and then an Application Engineer. She left the corporate world to go into business for herself with a focus on Web and Database Development and Photography. Her technical and creative abilities allow customers to receive one-stop Web Design from conception to completion. Visit her Website at MartinasWeb.com.

JC Ahangama - Network Administrator: JC is an IT Consultant at American Integrated Systems (AIS). They have top expertise on LANs (interoperation of Windows 9x/2K/NT/XP and Macintosh) and on bridging offices (VPNs) and provide advisement on network security. They install customized instant backup / recovery systems, web servers, email servers and develop ecommerce sites. Also, they provide maintenance service contracts for small offices. Email : JC@LANandWAN.com, Telephone: 817-473-9984, Web site: LANandWAN.com.

Steve Collier, (right) is a residential and commercial painting specialist. Over 25 years, Steve has painted hundreds of schools, churches, bank buildings, apartment complexes, homes, and has a special team that paints fences, iron and wood.

Rick Watson, (center) is the distributor for Elite Crete and technical advisor for many of our flooring projects. Lee Slabach, (right) is a commercial flooring consultant for concrete coatings, has been a friend for twenty years.

Dale Holder has worked for nearly 30 years as a welder, primarily on multi-family dwellings and other commercial projects. His many years of experience have given him a high level of knowledge about building codes and construction requirements.

Our accounting, bookkeeping, and payroll is managed by Mr. Brent Palmer, Small Business Accounting in Plano, Texas.