InfoLibrarian™ · Historical delivery shapes
How the work was scoped, led, and delivered.
Shapes used while shipping the classic product and related programs—assessment, platform MVP, and program leadership. Technical and business metadata, governance, lineage, and consistent semantics at scale. Documented as history for the portfolio, not as something you book today.
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Three shapes used then
A consulting practice that scaled across 47+ named enterprise accounts, with in-house teams and a partner ecosystem—on the long record.
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.
What those programs typically included
- Strategic architecture: Governed metadata platforms and roadmaps, on-premise and on Azure, aligned to business goals.
- Leadership alignment: Work with executives and engineering on adoption; mentoring delivery teams.
- Governance & compliance: Policy enforcement, lineage, glossary, taxonomy, and stewardship workflows (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA contexts).
- Technical validation: Hands-on PoCs to de-risk decisions and prove integration patterns.
- Measured outcomes: Value prioritization, tracked results, 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
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