Lamar has over twenty years of progressively increasing skills and responsibilities in computer networking, engineering, and architecture. He is an enterprise architect who has worked with medium-sized organizations, large enterprises, commercial organizations, and government agencies in planning, strategy, and design. Lamar has years of experience providing senior management and stakeholders with informed views and guidance by mapping the organization’s business, applications, data, and technology to expose gaps and deficiencies. Lamar has also developed roadmaps to transition from current state to future state and set architectures that reveal alignments and misalignments between goals and initiatives and business processes, capabilities, and services with IT assets.

 

As an enterprise architect, he provided stakeholders with models and artifacts of the organization’s processes, services, and capabilities utilizing TOGAF, DoDAF, FEAF, and EA3 cube frameworks and methodologies to assist in analysis decision making. Lamar has also worked in COOP, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning, and SAN and Storage engineering.

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Strategic Approach to Enterprise Architecture

 

Reduce complexity by providing artifacts that inform stakeholders, aid in the decision-making process, and ensure that high-quality work can be performed within the required timeline. Also, analyze and mature the agency or organization’s enterprise architecture program, mission, and strategy by articulating and modeling the business vision and strategy in terms of services, capabilities, functions, and processes.

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The key goals of enterprise architecture are to:

 

• Manage complexity – particularly for large complex organizations

• Reduce ambiguity by mapping the structure and relationships of the organization’s parts

• Provide a blueprint for frameworks and methodology, and participate in the governance of all architectural activities

• Enable traceability across the organization’s business, applications, data, and technology layers to expose dependencies, relationships, and gaps

• Uncover the needs, gaps, and functional requirements identified through mapping the current architectural state

• And develop target architectures and planning roadmaps to achieve the target architectural states

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