Rodrigo Loureiro
Chief Architect for Financial Solutions Group at CGI
- Location
- Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Summary
Oversee all technology strategy of Credit & Trade service line, a $120M business unit within CGI, providing technical direction for all financial solutions of the group, which include Trade, Originations, Servicing, Collections and Gateway solutions. Leads a team of Senior Technical Architects, part of a technical organization of more than 100 technical staff. Support sales and marketing staff, which include interpreting performance and size testing to provide hardware and software configuration for sales, marketing, and delivery teams. Complete architectural design and performance tuning for large scale platform and web facing infrastructure, which include J2EE and Oracle with BPEL, BPM, and EAI components. Consult with large banking institutions, including Wells Fargo, Moody's, and Bank of America.
Development of large business intelligence and data warehouse re-engineering to facilitate revenue growth and Strategic Planning.
Serve on the BIAN technical and strategy board.
Specialties
Strategic Enterprise Architecture Consulting
Information Security
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
J2EE Architecture
Performance Tuning of very large implementations
Experience
Chief Technical Architect
Banking and Investments
January 2005 – Present (7 years 5 months)
Led technical team of 90 in the design of CGI enterprise originations, collections and gateway solutions, which included leading all technical aspects of the design, development, and solution implementation. Solution was $21M program which created new technology solutions, utilizing JEE and SOA architecture, including Oracle, BAM, BI, BPEL, BPM, and ESB components.
Led the transition of the business of selling CGI software assets to multi-year, multi-million dollar hosted solutions in a private cloud using advanced virtual datacenter technologies, working with business and technology stakeholders to drive the technology vision, direction and strategic objectives for offering all CGI assets as a service over an internet platform.
Developed CGI security technology policy and standards to ensure safe deployment and offering of all CGI assets in secure datacenters complying with the latest regulations and best practices.
Chief Architect
CGI
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; GIB; Information Technology and Services industry
January 2005 – Present (7 years 5 months)
Served as chief architect on multiple programs, providing high capacity solutions for handling large volumes and high throughput. Performed technical reviews on product design, prepared presentations for new and existing clients, supported sales, developed white papers, and trained technical staff.
Led the deployment of PDI for the world's largest aerospace company, providing project management, architectural design, and performance tuning utilizing J2EE and HP-UX.
Partnered with GMAC in deployment of complex $17M project for implementation of Siebel enhancements, providing solutions rollout to more than 2000 users and enhancing client relationships. Project reduced operational cost 25% and increased revenue 30%, totaling $570K in first year of production.
Led the large $12M project initiative for deployment of new procurement desktop solutions for over 500 users at Boeing, resulting in 35% reduction in operating cost.
Assisted AT&T in the deployment of advanced collections platform with $1.8M ROI in the first year. Served as the lead technical manager for deploying a new system that increased efficiency of the collections center by implementing streamlined collections workflow based in CGI solution.
Created and managed new technology concept to enable wireless billing of expenses using ETL tools and business analytics.
Senior Principal
AMS
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMSY; Information Technology and Services industry
2000 – January 2005 (5 years)
Mr. Loureiro is responsible for the CTO Office & Enterprise Architecture group, where his responsibilities include creating the technical and strategic roadmap for all software products and solutions in the AMS Banking applications portfolio.
Product Architect Strategist
AMS
January 2000 – January 2003 (3 years 1 month)
Created strategic vision for the integration of AMS collection system, at the largest telecom operator in Brazil with over 67 million subscribers Embratel, and in one of the largest in the U.S. with 47 million subscribers. Served as Technical Project Manager for multiple initiatives, including architectural design, performance tuning, and programming in an Oracle, SQL, Java, C+, Sun, and Windows environment. Led initiatives for mobile eCommerce integration with OneEdge solutions products, including CACS, Tapestry, INAdvance, and various other wireless technologies. Performed architectural design and specification for middleware systems and Internet integration. Developed proof-of-concept solutions for oracle, PL/SQL, C/C++, middleware, HML, WML, Java, and WAP in a NT, UNIX, and Linux environment.
Awarded IP patent for prototype developed, which was a self-built customer hierarchy for promoting customer loyalty. Provided all solutions design and conception development for software solution.
Partnered with Embratel for deployment of advanced collections platforms with total ROI of more than $28M in the first year.
Sr Technical Manager
AMS
January 1996 – January 2000 (4 years 1 month)
Led all architectural design, technical specifications, middleware systems integration, and Internet integration within an Oracle, PL-SQL, C++, HTML, UNIX, Linux, NT and Java environment; Provided direction and leadership to 25 Analysts and Programmers.
Spearheaded the development and implementation of new Customer Care and Billing system in Europe for pre-paid subscribers at Vodafone and Belgacom. Efforts included directing team of analyst in creating new technical framework. System included the development of quick activation wizard to reduce customer activation time from 5 minutes to 30 seconds.
Technical Architect
Proximus
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; BELG; Telecommunications industry
1996 – 1999 (3 years)
Assignment while working at AMS.
Sr Programmer Analyst, performance and tuning expert, focused in online transactions and increasing performance of order management , and billing and rating system.
Skills & Expertise
Skills & Expertise
Education
Universidade de Lisboa
MSc, Statistics & Operations Research
1988 – 1994
Activities and Societies: BSc in Statistics and MSc degree in Operations Research Science University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Colegio Moderno
High School
ES Cidade Universitaria
High School
ES Filipa de Lencastre
High School, ES Filipa de Lencastre
ES Fonseca Benevides
High School
SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF LISBON
Master of Science, Operations Research
Universidade de Lisboa
Bachelor of Science, Statistics and Operations Research
Additional Information
- Interests:
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Soccer, Cycling, Europe
- Honors and Awards:
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Patent for self-care prepaid services