Michael W. Hawkins

Michael Hawkins is an IT consultant specializing in IT strategies, design, implementation, management and security. He is also co-author of several books about implementing and managing distributed-computing environments including Managing the New Enterprise, Networking the New Enterprise, and Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation. Mr. Hawkins has more than 20 years, serving large companies in the oil and financial sectors. In 1980 he joined the Distributed Processing Division of a large oil company in Saudi Arabia where he was involved with a large international network for five years. He joined a large regional bank in the Philippines in 1984 where he was head of technical planning and security. He is currently a consultant designing, implementing and managing large IT environments for a variety of companies in Asia. He earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley; M.S. degree in Computer Science from Ateneo de Manila University; and an M.A. degree in Economics from the University of Oklahoma.

Michael Hawkins

FLOYD PIEDAD is President of AKAsia Services Corporation, a leading Internet services company based in Manila, the Philippines.

MICHAEL HAWKINS is an IT management consultant who specializes in implementing and managing large IT infrastructures for companies throughout Asia and North America.

Floyd Piedad

Floyd Piedad is CEO and CTO of Philippine and Scandinavian IT Services, Inc., with over 11 years of experience in the IT industry. His previous work experience includes 5 years as President of AKAsia Services Corporation and 6 years with IBM Philippines through which he gained his expertise in systems management consulting and services development. Notable achievements include establishment and management of AKAsia's entire IT infrastructure and development of its own customer service, accounting, and customer management applications. With IBM, his efforts in developing a first-of-a-kind outsourced service offering gained for him the prestigious IBM Chairman’s Award given personally by Lou Gerstner in New York. Floyd Piedad is a Bachelor of Science degree holder in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Philippines. Floyd is also a noted author with his best-selling Prentice Hall book titled High Availability.