Academic

I. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Database

The United Nations Law of the Sea Database was an initiative envisaged By J. Alan Beesley while he was Diplomatic Visitor-in-Residence at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, (1987-1988). I was hired by Mr. Beesley in the Spring of 1988 by contract with the Faculty of Law as his Research Assistant to conceptualize, design and establish a document database regarding the development and conclusion of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Mr. Beesley, in his capacity as Ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva and Ambassador for the Environment, was the most critical player in this Convention, being a member of the "Collegium" Steering Committee and the Chairman of the international Drafting Committee. It had been a dream of Mr. Beesley since the Convention was concluded to some day in some way organize into a comprehensive electronic whole the plethora of speeches and documents pertaining to the negotiation and conclusion of the Law of The Sea convention. My responsibilty was to identify the software requirements, design the Database structure, identify and research existing material, select pertinent documents, and summarize contents of these for entry into the Database. The Database would be primarily of interest to historical political science and legal researchers, but would reside in Ottawa, in the possession of the Department of External Affairs. I was subsequently contracted by the Department's Legal Bureau (Legal Advisory Divison) to continue the work after Mr. Beesley's departure. ... Below are some sample research entries from the Database print-out with document abstract:

Document 1

II. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) IE/PAC, Paris:

Industry and Environment Review

Editorial Consultant, communications and editorial specialist, 1991,... editorial research and writing... involving editing and final review of abstracts for publication in french, spanish and english...

Editorial, Industry and Environment Review, No. Vol. 1991

Editorial, Industry and Environment Review, Vol.14, No.1 - page 1 page 2

III. Institute for International Relations

the IIR was interested in the UNCLOS DataBase project ... and communications ensued inter the Institute and the Faculty of Law. I was subsequently engaged with the Institute as a Social Science Researcher.... responsible to edit and technically configure an existing bibliography of research on the environment for inclusion into the UBC Mainframe. On this occasion, prior to my contract with the Institute, I was asked by the IIR Director to voluntarily summarize a Program Event that the Director was not able to attend. It was a 40 minute public information session regarding sustainability and the environment. The following is a casual briefing communication prepared for the Institute summarizing the event. Research summary, example:

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IV. Ministry of Intergovernmental Relations

The Office of the Coordinator of Official Visits was established a year prior to the opening of EXPO '86 in Vancouver, BC. to undertake all aspects of preparation and planning for the arrival and itineraries of official visitors to Vancouver, BC, guests of the Government of B.C. I was hired as the Visits Manager, as part of the team which consisted of 1 Coordinator and three Deputy Coordinators (including the BC Chief-of-Protocol) and 1 executive secretary. The Visits Manager, under the direction of the Deputy Coordinator, Administration, was responsible to assist pre-exposition planning, particularly staffing requirements (Visits Officers), and recruitment, interviewing of three additional managers (transportation, hospitality, and protocol), and communications with the Expo Corporation staff, headed by J Pattison. Other staff members were brought in via secondment from various BC government ministries.

Near the close of my contract, one of the final duties of Visits Manager was to prepare a document of introduction for a rapidly increasing staffing contigency as the Exposition's opening date neared. The document was an internal brochure introducing the organizational structure of the Expo grounds (Colour coding, etc), and the operational coding of invited guests VIP's (there were nine levels or categories of visitors). Category 1, (Heads of State) was handled exclusively by the Department of External Affairs, CSIS and the RCMP.

Excerpts of the introductory Organization, and Protocol Operations briefing document, March 1986.

V. Office of Protocol, National Day Visits, EXPO '86, Heads of State, Department of External Affairs Canada

Communications brief summarizing the opening speech and general event on the occasion of the opening of the Exposition, in particular the address by ... for the Director National Day Visits... (humour...)

Published bilingual program itineraries (example) - There were 48 in all over the course of the National Day Visits program.