PORTFOLIO ARCHIVE — InfoLibrarian™ (2005–2020) is inactive. This site preserves Brian Brewer’s past enterprise metadata & modernization work. About this archive →
Escaping Tech Debt. Accelerating Delivery. Bridging Strategy, Architecture, and Technology.
Complexity—driven by tech and data debt—shaped this 15-year journey across software, architecture, and modernization.
Explore Brian Brewer’s portfolio of Fortune 100 solutions and platforms (2005–2020)—part of the InfoLibrarian™ legacy.
Portfolio focus: modeling and integrating enterprise metadata to enable knowledge management via a semantic layer over complex enterprise IT environments.
Portfolio Highlights
A retrospective of hands-on solutions that shaped enterprise data and metadata innovation between 2005 and 2020.
Enterprise Metadata Integration
Unified technical & business metadata across complex ecosystems—lineage, impact analysis, schemas, and adapters.
Key Focus: consistent semantics and reliable integration.
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Enterprise Metadata Integration Framework Design
Property-graph enabled open meta-model framework (designed by Brian Brewer) software and tooling implemented for open, flexible integration.
Artifacts: Metadata Integration Framework™, Metadata Appliance™.
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Products & Legacy (2005–2020)
InfoLibrarian™ products—Metadata Integration Framework™, Metadata Appliance™, Search Appliance™—documented here as a professional archive.
Outcome: capabilities used across Fortune 100 programs (2005–2020).
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Enterprise Metadata & Data Governance Consulting (2005–2020)
Led by Brian Brewer. Consulting practice scaled to 20 enterprise customers, with in-house consulting teams and a global partner ecosystem. Documented here as part of the portfolio archive.
Assessment & Roadmap (Metadata & Governance)
Controlled vocabularies (taxonomies, thesauri), meta-models, lineage & impact analysis, and integration inventory.
Proofs of concept delivered in ~90 days across three priority use cases.
Semantic & Knowledge Layer
Modeled enterprise vocabularies and ontologies, then layered a property-graph meta-model over existing systems to enable knowledge management—glossaries, search, and discovery.
Key Focus: consistent meaning, findability, reuse.
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Program Leadership & Enablement
Built in-house consulting teams and engaged a global partner network for enterprise rollouts (glossaries, data marketplace portals).
Operating model, stewardship workflows, and knowledge transfer.
Products & offerings applied: Metadata Integration Framework™, Metadata Appliance™, Search Appliance™, universal adapters, and API framework.
Two Decades of Platform Innovation
Before consulting engagements ended in 2020, we built the platforms. InfoLibrarian™ pioneered metadata management with enterprise products like the Metadata Integration Framework™, Metadata Appliance™, and Search Appliance™—powering Fortune 100 operations before "data catalogs" existed.
This portfolio documents expertise gained from building, scaling, and yes—escaping our own platforms (2005-2020).
My $1M Tech Debt Crisis Became a Blueprint.
The wrong tech stack nearly killed my business.
That failure shaped this 15 year portfolio, now a blueprint for future leaders.
Client Success from Brian Brewer’s Portfolio
- A&E Television Networks: Enabled 25% faster platform launches with real-time streaming metadata and robust data contracts.
— Sr. Director, Data Strategy - Sabre Holdings: Reduced model complexity by 50%, avoiding millions in fines with actionable modernization patterns.
— Sr. Data Architect - AWS Cloud Consultancy: Cut delivery time by 30% and boosted metadata visibility for enterprise AWS platforms.
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