Rick Hermann

Computer Geek Dept: When he needed to print out a work schedule for a job site, he painstakingly transferred every word, letter by letter, from a sheet of Letraset onto a sheet of paper, according to Vancouver Sun. "I'm not a computer geek, but I recognized enough value in it that I said 'Hey, this is where I have to spend some effort,'" he recalled and When Rick Hermann started out in the construction industry in the early 1980s, high-tech was a mobile phone the size of a brick. It was 1986 before Hermann - working in an industry that remains conservative in its adoption of computer technology - encountered Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program and began to appreciate the potential of computers for cataloguing and sorting information. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.