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BHSestimator

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The BHS, Inc.

4618 S. 156 Road

Bolivar, MO 65613

(417) 777-8359

Rick Barnhouse - Company President

Rick came to BHS in 1989 to help keep up with all the hardware issues related to the industry at the time. Portable computers were a new thing and the world was black and white (or at least black and amber). In his spare time Rick started working along side the head programmer to troubleshoot code and on occasion added new ideas to test out on the boss. One of the first times, the boss walked by Rick’s door with a perspective client and there was the BHSestimator, running in color for the first time. Those were simpler times.

Time passed and Rick took over as head programmer in the early 1990s. The program moved on from DOS to Windows.

In 2008, Rick completed a degree in Computer Information Science at Southwest Baptist University (in his spare time). He graduated with honors at the top of his class and was awarded the Life Beautiful Award – a special award for SBU, presented to one male and one female student annually.

In 2010, David Zuck decided to retire and Rick became president of BHS, Inc.

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David E. Zuck - Consultant

David E. Zuck has been in the electrical estimating business 40+ years and was president of BHS, Inc from its inception until August 2010. Back in the mid 80s, when computers first started becoming available, Dave saw a application in the estimating field. There were a few packages available back then, so he went out and bought one. Then another. Then ANOTHER. None of them worked like estimators were use to estimating. They had the screen all partitioned off in different section, new covers for the keyboard key, crazy stuff. Dave's estimators couldn't use a keyboard anyway. So he did what he had always been taught, do it yourself!

Dave was writing the program for in-house use. He needed something that his estimators could use and he could feel comfortable with. But once the BHSestimator was finished, all his friends in the business wanted a copy and Dave's entrepreneurial spirit kicked in. In 1988 Dave released the first BHSestimator to the public. Now there are hundreds of systems out there in the US and Australia. Word of mouth has been our greatest advertising tool. People like the system and they tell their friends.

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