InfoLibrarian™ · How the work was delivered
How the work was scoped, led, and delivered.
Engagement shapes used while building the classic product and related programs—assessment, platform MVP, and program leadership. Portfolio record of delivery, not an active services offer. Technical and business metadata, governance, lineage, and consistent semantics at scale.
Customer Success → Framework →
Engagement Models
Consulting practice scaled to 30+ enterprise customers with in-house teams and a partner ecosystem.
Metadata Strategy & Integration Assessment
Controlled vocabularies (taxonomies, thesauri), meta-models, lineage & impact analysis, and integration inventory.
Proofs of concept delivered in ~90 days across three priority use cases.
Enterprise Metadata Platform (MVP)
Property-graph meta-model (designed by Brian Brewer) implemented over a relational for open, flexible integration.
Universal adapters & API framework; support for business glossaries, taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies—enabling knowledge management over existing platforms.
Program Leadership & Enablement
In-house teams and a partner network for enterprise rollouts (business glossaries, semantic search, and data marketplace portals).
Operating model, stewardship workflows, and knowledge transfer.
Products & IP applied: Metadata Integration Framework™, Metadata Appliance™, Search Appliance™, universal adapters, API framework.
How the Work Was Delivered
- Strategic Architecture: Designed governed metadata platforms and roadmaps, on-premise and on Azure, aligned to business goals.
- Leadership Alignment: Partnered with executives and engineering to drive adoption; mentored teams.
- Governance & Compliance: Implemented policy enforcement, lineage, glossary, taxonomy, and stewardship workflows (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA contexts).
- Technical Validation: Delivered hands-on PoCs to de-risk decisions and prove integration patterns.
- Measured Outcomes: Prioritized value, tracked results, and iterated delivery.
Selected Outcomes
Results are recorded per engagement rather than summarised here — audit savings at BMO, 80,000+ governed business terms at UnitedHealth, 30,000+ models integrated at Sabre, a 95% reduction in change-related problems at Fujifilm, and selection over seven competing platforms at U.S. Foodservice. Each is documented with its source on the portfolio page.
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After the Classic Product
From 2018 the same metadata and practice-building experience carried into cloud consulting — the pivot in motion, while the InfoLibrarian IP continued to develop. Classic-era client outcomes are documented on the portfolio page.
2018 onward · the pivot
Governed Platforms on AWS
“Frameworks accelerated compliance and metadata visibility for enterprise AWS platforms.”
— Principal Cloud Architect, AWS Cloud Consultancy
See Brian’s Portfolio of Results →
These models are portfolio history, not a current service menu. Classic product EOS.
