Gartner Expert

James Cameron

Director Analyst

James Cameron is a Director Analyst in the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team at Gartner focusing in Business and Data Architecture, Operational Improvement, and Leadership. He has over 15 years experience operational leadership experience a decade of analyst and architectural experience.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Cameron completed an M.B.A. His past experience includes roles such as Manager of an EA practice, an Enterprise Architect, Business Analyst and Architect, Technical Analyst, and Project Manager for two Canadian Federal Government Departments - Department of National Defense and Correctional Services of Canada. In the federal public service, James has experience working with organizational design, business requirement documentation (BRD), software development life cycle (SDLC), project management life cycle (PMLC), project governance, architectural artefact development and evaluation, IM/IT standards governance and development, application portfolio management (APM), business capability modeling (BCM), and Critical Business and Applications Services (CBAS).

Before his public service career, James held senior leadership positions in higher education. He held roles of Regional Director of Education for Ontario for a Private Career College as well as an Academic Dean for a college campus. During that time, his experience included operation improvement, organization structure, business architecture, large enterprise wide IT modernization initiatives of content and learning management systems, and supported the architecting and launch an online campus for the college.

Professional background

Correctional Services of Canada, Manager Enterprise Architecture , 5 years

Canadian Department of National Defense , Senior Business Analyst, 1 years

Herzing College, Regional Director of Education, 4 years

Herzing College, Academic Dean, 3 years

Areas of coverage
  • Head of Enterprise Architecture Leadership and Personal Effectiveness

  • Enterprise Architecture Operating Model

Education

Master's of Business Administration

Bachelor of Integrated Science

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Building and maturing Enterprise Architecture (EA) teams and practices

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EA and organizational structure

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EA Skills, Competencies, and Roles

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EA Principles, Standards, and Governance

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Enterprise and Business Modeling Practices and Tools