About Mikeware™

Michael A. Hawker Begins

Mikeware is the brainchild of Michael A. Hawker; an envisionment of making better Applications and Games for everyone.

Mikeware was created in 1996 by Michael A. Hawker.

Michael A. Hawker was born in Montreal, Quebec Canada. He moved to Pennsylvania at a young age, grew up in Vermont, and now resides in Washington state. He started using a computer at the age of four and started programming computers in the fourth grade.

Michael holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from McGill University where he obtained his Bachelors in Computer Science minoring in Philosophy as well.

Michael has been a member of the International Game Developers Association since November 2006.

He currently works as a Program Manager for the Network Monitor team at Microsoft and continues his game experiments when he can in his spare time.

Michael's resume can be found here in PDF format.

Mikeware Begins

The idea for Mikeware came while Michael was talking to some friends over the lunch table long, long ago. He had been writing games for quite some time and decided he should form a name for his software. After a few minutes of bouncing ideas off his friends, Mikeware was born.

In 1998, Michael established Mikeware's first logo, which was later revamped to the current logo on 11/02/1999, for the year 2000, during an entrepreneurship class. The Mikeware seal (as seen in the upper-left corner) was initially created back in November 2004, and evolved slowly until making its first appearance on our new website.

Other Mikeware Facts

Mikeware was then registered as a tradename with the state of Vermont on 06/22/2000.

The domain Mikeware.com was purchased on 06/30/2002 by Michael A. Hawker.

On 05/27/2003 the Mikeware.com Online Shop opened for business through Cafepress.com.

On 01/22/2005 the Mikeware Legacy software section was started. A place to show Mikeware's History.

Starting in January 2006 until August 2008, Michael was closely involved in furthering the development of McGill's Mammoth Project.

On 05/23/2006 the new Mikeware.com was launched! In addition to a nice visual lift plenty of projects were added to the Legacy Vault.