Modernization Showcase

Explore strategy and technoloy leadership operating models created by Brian Brewer, built over 15+ years with InfoLibrarian™

Bridging Strategy and Technology Execution

This portfolio reflects a legacy of escaping tech debt, building fast, and leading with architecture. It showcases how our work with teams before 2020 unblocked delivery, modernized platforms, and built modern-ready metadata driven and governed data platforms without vendor lock-in or theoretical decks.

Legacy Modernization Impact Showcase

Portfolio of Modernization Showcase

Strategic Advisory Showcase

What We Did: Aligned strategy and execution at ~60% of full-time costs through past team collaborations. Showcased For: CTOs and data leaders who tackled complexity, slowdowns, or scaling before 2020.

How It Worked:

Tech Debt Escape & Platform Simplification

What We Did: Stripped away legacy clutter to restore delivery velocity in 2–4 weeks. Key Outcomes:

• Eliminated overbuilt abstractions and bottlenecks.
• Rationalized stacks for clarity and speed.
• 40% faster time to trusted data.

Process: Rapid teardown, readiness assessment, and rebuild sprints.

Scalable Architecture

What We Did: Designed lean, governable systems that evolved without fragility. Key Features:

• Composable services with clear boundaries and observability.
• Governance and DataOps built in, not bolted on.
• AI-ready and cloud-native for regulated or fast-moving industries.

Informed by: Years of real-world delivery across regulated and fast-moving industries.

Powered By Our Modernization Framework

This portfolio showcases a hands-on framework that prioritized execution in our past work.

Past Engagement Approaches: Proven for Impact

This portfolio showcases models that bridged strategy and execution to deliver measurable results.

• Assessment (Fixed Price): Conducted tech debt audits and modernization roadmaps in 2–4 weeks.
• Fix & Simplify (Project-Based): Rebuilt platforms for 40% faster delivery.
• Strategic Leadership (Retainer): Provided embedded leadership for 90%+ strategic impact at 60% cost.

What This Portfolio Showcases

• Embedded Strategy: Architecture, platform, and data modernization delivered end-to-end
• Modernization Accelerators: Rebuilt platforms for 40% faster delivery.
• Architecture Refactoring: Simplified bloated stacks, eliminated fragile dependencies, clarified future-state
• Mentorship Through the Shift: Coached teams through mindset changes
• Governance-Embedded Design: Trust, access, and quality designed in

Business Outcomes Showcased

• $2M+ saved in compliance remediation
• 40% faster time to trusted data
• 25% reduction in delivery cycles
• Visible, measurable modernization momentum—within weeks

Mastering Streaming Media Metadata & Data Contracts

"InfoLibrarian’s leadership helped us build the platform capabilities needed to wrangle and model real-time streaming media metadata, establishing robust data contracts. Their hands-on expertise ensured data quality and consistency across complex pipelines, enabling seamless platform launches and audience experiences."

— Senior Director, Data Strategy, A&E Television Networks

Escaping Big Data Debt: 30,000 Models, One Modernization Blueprint

"Facing over 30,000 data models in a complex big data ecosystem, our teams were overwhelmed. InfoLibrarian’s leadership, led by Brian Brewer, helped us cut through the chaos, delivering clarity, structure, and modernization patterns that laid a scalable foundation, enabling fast delivery with full control."

— Senior Data Architect, Sabre Holdings

Accelerating Governed Data Platforms on AWS

"For enterprise clients building sophisticated, governed data platforms on AWS, the flexible frameworks and modernization patterns developed by Brian Brewer have been instrumental. These approaches helped our teams deliver compliance, accelerate time-to-value, and improve metadata visibility across complex cloud architectures—enabling customers to confidently scale their data and AI initiatives."

— Principal Cloud Architect, Award Winning AWS Cloud Consultancy

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Specialized Legacy Services

This portfolio highlights targeted add-ons that enhanced our past modernization efforts.

• AI Readiness Audits: Assessed metadata, lineage, and governance for MLOps readiness.
• Governance-in-Flow™ Enablement: Embedded governance into workflows, not catalogs.
• Data Product Playbooks: Defined roles, ownership, data stewardship, and lifecycle by domain.
• Metadata Teardown Workshops: Streamlined metadata for operations in 2-week sprints.
• Platform Rescue for Growth Teams: Fixed fragile infra and bad vendor choices fast.