Are you an emergency management team or professional with a temporary or emergency staffing problem? An ambitious new project?

I can help.

Hello, I'm Mike Watkins.

Add me to your team—at any phase of disaster and emergency management. I'm an enthusiastic and versatile contributor with an approachable and supportive leadership style.

Contact me at hello@solutionroute.ca—let's talk.

I'll bring years of solution-focused consulting and project management experience with government and large organizations, and practical, on-the-ground learnings from leading response at hundreds of incidents and extended deployments supporting local authority and provincial EOCs.

Recent Deployments & Projects

• 2003 - 2018: Alternate ESSD, City of Vancouver
• 2014-2019: Secretary, then president, VECTOR
• 2017 - Current: Simon Fraser University, AMECom support & deployment team leader
• 2017: AMECom Seconded to Central and North East Region Provincial EOCs for Wildfire Response.
• 2018: AMECom Activation, Smithers, NE Region Wildfire Response
• 2018: Old Fort Landslide
• 2019: Emergency Support Services exercise review, Bowen Island Municipality
• 2020 - 2023: Simon Fraser University, Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) project support
• 2020: Peace River Regional District, Old Fort Landslide, EOC Director
• 2022: Peace River Regional District, Battleship Mountain wildfire, EOC Director
• 2023: Village of Chase, Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) Pilot
• 2023: Ridge Meadows Search & Rescue, Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) Pilot
• 2023: Peace River Regional District, Boundary Lake, Red Creek, Stoddart Creek, Donnie Creek wildfire complex, Advance Planning, EOC Director
• 2024: Peace River Regional District, Wildfire response EOC Director
• 2025: Peace River Regional District, Kelly Lake wildfire response EOC Director

Available for contract assignments of any duration.

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