Luis Rodrigues is a Digital Governance Consultant of the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since October 2024.
Luis has developed his career as a technology leader and advisory manager, focused on Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy. With over 21 years of experience, he has serviced and worked with many Tier 1 organisations, bridging the gap between business needs and digital capabilities by leading teams and delivering transformational projects.
Leveraging Technology, Processes and People, he ensured the adoption of the best fitting and efficient innovative solutions. Having a strong C-level interaction experience he led multiple Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy opportunities across industries and led successful multimillion-dollar business development efforts, contributing to successful transformation opportunities. As part of those projects, he dealt with heterogenous technological environments, from legacy to cloud-based, assessing leading platforms, culminating in the delivery of +50 projects across industries (e.g. Higher Education, Central and Local Government agencies, Financial Services, Energy, Chemicals, Mining, Consumer Goods, Transportation, Telecommunications, Health and Construction). Developed Architecture Practices and managed project teams, vendors, contractors and service providers working with local, remote and offshore teams based on +10 locations across 8 countries and 4 continents.
Luis has participated in vendor and consulting events as a presenter and has led change management projects that included acting as faculty and lecturer. Luis co-led a consulting training course in Chicago to an audience of ~120 trainees during 240 hours.
Luis majored in the Licentiate of Information Systems Management from the Information Systems Department of the University of Minho from 1998 to 2003. Has been trained in TOGAF, COBIT and Google Cloud Fundamentals. Luis was also trained in Leadership by the Portuguese Armed Forces.