Michael Coyle is a Software Engineer, avid backcountry skier, climber and mountaineer, and a veteran SAR volunteer living in Squamish, British Columbia.

Mike is company principal at Blue Toque Consulting, specializing in software design, development, and consulting for the Emergency Management and Justice and Public Safety area. Mike has 20 years of software engineering, user interface design and business consulting experience.

He also blogs about his experiences as a SAR volunteer, team leader, manager, and mountain rescue expert at Oplopanax Horridus.