Alumni Entrepreneurs
Terry C. Billedeaux, BA, 1973
Business/Organization/Inventions
Armor Systems International
Type of Business
Defense
Date of Operation
Dec 2002–Dec 2007
Business Sold in 2007
Contact Information
2007 SE 114th Ct, Suite B
Vancouver, WA 98664
(360) 901-1050
Description of Business, Organization, Invention
- Founder & President of Armor Systems International which provided defensive related products that helps save US and US Allies military personnel in hostile environments. Inventions include developing a composite “Peel & Stick®” ballistic armor for vehicle applications; “TankSkin®” which protected over 1,500 fuel tankers in Iraq from damage caused by hostile fire. TankSkin® was also considered vital to the war effort and was given an “emergency priority” by the Department of Defense to be utilize in the Iraqi theatre. Company was purchased in 2007.
- Current: Founder & President of Ultimate Defense, Inc. which provides defensive related products for the US Consumer, Department of Defense, or Homeland Security. Products include: “Glass Armor®” which turns regular glass into armored glass for home security, storefronts, storm damage, etc.; “Fiberglass Armor®” that protects fiberglass from abrasion and impacts due to environmental factors and is used on Wind Turbine blades, bottom of canoes, boats, a multitude of fiberglass applications, etc.
Evergreen helped prepare me for my professional life
Rudy Martin; my professor, my friend, and my mentor believed in me. He understood my strengths I never knew I had and he once describe me as a “doer” and that is what I become. Using my Evergreen experience I have always believed that I am ready to accept whatever challenge is before me; whether it positive or negative or just life’s changes. I am grateful for my Evergreen experience as it provided me an opportunity to expand who I was and to always think of a better way.