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"intelligen is an international consultancy, providing contract and
freelance services for the ICT,
library, museum, archive,
institution, conservation, web and publishing
industries"
Please note: there is no connection between
intelligen.co.uk and the USA based software simulation company
intelligen.com
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AVAILABILITY:
Dates available. I will consider short, medium and long-term
roles on a call-off, day-rate, PAYE, permanent or fixed-term
contract basis
NOTE: Increasing legislation from the UK’s HMRC*, is strangling
freelance and consulting activities, resulting in pressure from
the client companies I engage with, to only deal with
limited companies. This is a costly move for a
small business, does not guarantee immunity from IR35** and
makes it more and more difficult to engage with new prospects,
particularly larger organisations. There are a number of
'umbrella' organisations who I can deal with to give you the service
you require, without unnecessary risk on you as the client, or on
myself as the contractor. John Baker, Principal, intelligen
* Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs **
Inland Revenue 'Intermediary Rule 35'. See
www.hmrc.gov.uk
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History
intelligen was formed in 1995 by its
principal John
Baker (right). Initially specialising in
Cimage
system consultancy, the company was created to perform
document management and project management
consultancy work.
Immediate contracts in 1995 involved work with PowerGen (now
eON) at Cottam Power
Station in Lincolnshire, England, and the large
Texaco (now part of
Chevron) refinery
at Pembroke in south-west Wales.
Other work took the company to
Mobil at St Fergus,
Scotland, Shell,
BP, Amoco (now BP) and
many others.
In 1999 it gained international recognition, with a
document and information management consultancy posting which covered
two U.S. based nuclear
power Fortune 500 clients. There were two main power companies for which
consultancy was provided: PSEG in New Jersey's Hope Creek, and Nuclear Management Company
(original licensee,) which was taken over by
FPL Energy (Florida
Power & Light, and during 2009 becomes
NextEra
Energy Resources.) That was a contract based in Milwaukee with trips
to Point Beach Power Plant on the Lake Michigan coast.
Present
 In 2008 the consultancy re-located
to its original base in the north-east of Scotland. (Very close to Aberdeen, the 'oil capital' of Europe.)
intelligen now provides a much wider range of services.
From 2005 to
2009, the company provided management and
consultancy
services to Copydata (scanning, microfilm services) in Norwich, England, various minor MoD contractors and an
editorial posting for the B2B magazine
IDMi.
 After
engineering a successful management buyout of IDMi in 2009, the
challenge was to provide operational management in the UK for an
Australasian based group
Datam. As part
of New Zealand Post, Converga UK was tasked to penetrate the UK then
European markets. Sadly however, plans were shelved after only 6 months
of business, due to a corporate re-organisation.
New challenges are in the pipeline.
Calling on a variety of skills gained in ICT, microfilm, photography, commercial business, and
man-management, intelligen continues to offer an all round service to companies
and institutions of all sizes, both in Europe and other parts of the
world.
intelligen and its other business interests are now a family concern with various new skills brought to the portfolio,
this leaves Principal John Baker, the flexibility to pursue other
contract, consultancy and personal
business.
Business Sectors
 intelligen's experience allows operations within the
following business sectors:
- Oil & Gas (exploration, production,
de-commissioning)
- Nuclear & Fossil Fuel (generation and
de-commissioning)
- Space & Defence
- Manufacturing (R&D, process and
fabrication)
- Research (Scientific, industrial and
commercial)
- Local Government (admin, planning and
building control)
- Construction (transport, rail and
commercial)
- Banking, Finance and Insurance (data
conversion, legacy data conversion & migration)
Contact Details
Principal: John W Baker
Email:
johnbaker@intelligen.co.uk
Phone: 0044 1330 824826
(Direct Line)
Mobile/Cell: 0044 7775 863257
(vodafone UK or international rates apply)
Experience Profile
This is available on request. Please feel
free to contact
johnbaker@intelligen.co.uk for further information.
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Project Work
As intelligen, John Baker's project and
consultancy work has covered:
- ICT: Active member of an
international microfilm standards committee.
- BOOK: Author of a book on scanning
of all media, including microfilm and photographic.
- ICT: Conversion of Hollerith data
from aperture cards to Excel, with validation and verification ready
for import into a new system. The data was then used to access and
retrieve digital images created from microfilm aperture cards.
- ICT: Integration of an IBM
mainframe based SAP system with a contemporary EDMS. This involved
passing parameters to a file which was then picked up by the UNIX
server and the information used to query the database and return
images and data to the user.
- WEB: Design and implementation of a
web based information access system to allow a drill-down approach
to get to data in a tag-driven environment.
- WEB: Migration, reconfiguration and
re-engineering of a PHP script accessed MySQL database for a
publishing company's trade directory.
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Scanning and image
processing of panoramic negatives from a hand-built camera. (As the
film frames were 10 inches in length, they were beyond the capacity
for a normal photo-lab to cater for.)
- MICROFILM: Creation of a titling
system for micropublishing of step-and-repeat fiche, using line film
techniques and contact printing directly to film.
- MICROFILM: Invention of an
auto-exposure by-pass system to allow a planetary microfilm camera
to take consistently exposed images onto colour microfilm.
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 PHOTOGRAPHY:
Capture of glass plate photo images into digital format.
- ICT: Migration of images from
optical disk to HDD, HDD to microfilm, and microfilm to digital.
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Preservation of glass
plate images to both film and microfilm based media.
- VIDEO: Conversion of 8mm Super 8
film to DV (digital) format. This involved the scanning of all 8mm
frames, passing them through a digital clean-up process,
re-assembling the film as a sequence of digital images, and output
to DV tape and digital HDD storage formats.
- ICT: Development of an integrated
system for the storage, retrieval and presentation of document and
image sets into an online/intranet page-turning environment.
- ICT: Researched/wrote an 8 part
article on document scanning.
- PRESERVATION/CONSERVATION:
Researched/wrote a multi-part article on the use of microfilm as a
long-term secure and non-technology dependent storage medium with
special emphasis on colour microfilm and the fact that both colour
and mono film is now certified as archivally permanent for 500
years.
- ICT + VIDEO: Developed a PC based
video retrieval system for showing engineers sub-sea pipeline
inspection video with simultaneous images of port, starboard and
central camera views. This was coupled with KP survey data extracted
from the survey system and migrated into an MS Access database, for
display adjacent to the footage.
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