Howard is the developer of the world's first commercial Web page editor -- HTML Assistant Pro. Operating on a shoestring budget, Howard and his wife, Cheryl Gillett, established Brooklyn North Software Works, Inc. They were able to successfully market HTML Assistant Pro from their home in Nova Scotia. Using their Web based marketing strategy; they generated sales of approximately $1.5 million in just over two years, and opened offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Andover, Massachusetts.

In September, 1999, Howard and Cheryl left the company they founded. Their new company, EXIT 0 Digital Systems Inc., develops and markets Windows based software products and offers consulting services related to software design and development. The company sells its software worldwide through its Web site, http://www.brooknorth.com.

Howard taught Computer Science and Technology for fifteen years at Acadia University, and at what is now the Nova Scotia Community College. He left the College in 1996 to assume a full time role as President of Brooklyn North. In 1999, he was appointed to the Nova Scotia Community College's Board of Governors.

A practitioner of the arts for many years, Mr. Harawitz is an active electronic musician and photographer. His photos have been used in television documentaries, published in books and magazines, as well as by the British Broadcasting Company as part of its Open University series that is delivered on the Internet. Earlier this year, two of his photographs were installed as photo murals at the University of California's Berkeley campus. His musical compositions have been used by theatre groups in Northern California, and at the St. Mary's University Art Gallery.

During the 1960s and 70s, Howard lived and worked in close proximity to the "Silicon Valley" area of Northern California. He worked with the founders of the industry and developed some of its earliest software products -- for both the arts and engineering. Howard was a participant in San Francisco's "Computer Faires", the industry's first trade shows. Other participants included Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, John Dvorak, Lee Felsenstein, Adam Osborn and many others whose industry contributions are well known.

Howard's early efforts included "Video Loom" (1979) -- the first microcomputer based textile design program, which was featured by the Apple Computer Company in its promotional literature and used by craftspeople and art schools all over the world; "Time Master" (1981), one of the first microcomputer based energy management systems, and used by major retail chains throughout North America and Europe; an early computer controlled flame cutting system (1982) for the Swedish industrial firm, Asea; a water supply control system (1981) for the city of Denver, Colorado; "Video Dance" (1980), a program which used music fed into the Apple II's cassette tape input port (normally used for loading programs) to create changing computerized images that were projected onto giant video screens at San Francisco disco dances.

Working with pioneering video artist and software consultant Stephen Beck, Mr. Harawitz was also a participant in the development, for companies like Parker Brothers and Milton-Bradley, of some of the first stand-alone computerized games and toys.

An engineer by profession, Howard's computer career began in the 1960's when he learned to program mainframe computers at the University of California in Berkeley. Later, as part of a groundbreaking air pollution research project funded by the US National Science Foundation, he developed computer based methods for estimating air pollutant emissions that were used for predicting the impact of industrial development on air quality in the San Francisco Bay area.

He resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.