Luis Castillo

Worked as Sr Manager, Systems Engineering at Nutanix.

Worked as Director, Systems Engineering, Enterprise Majors at Fortinet.

Worked as Systems Engineer - Enterprise at Fortinet.

I was given the challenge to create an enterprise architecture group for the company, with the following goals:
• Establish an enterprise architecture practice
• Establish a process to review, approve, and adopt, technology
• Establish a community of practice within technical leadership to educate and train on technologies used
• Establish a formal design process to govern technical decisions
• De

I was given the opportunity to bring to life a proposal I put forth to the CIO: To create a Long term innovation practice within IT, a one-year program, that would create:
Dedicated investment within the organization to fund creative ideas and new technologies that are high-risk/high-reward.
A method by which the organization would evaluate and adopt new technologies at the company, broadening t

I was put in charge of leading an organization transformation at NI that I proposed, which involved moving from a technology-oriented organization to a service-oriented organization. This involved:
• Creating a new operating model for services-oriented IT
• Creating a treatment strategy to define and transform the way teams operate.
• Executing the organizational changes, including workforce chang

Aside from my role as a global network engineer, I now manage the team's global project portfolio and team's workload, along with the team's 1, 3 and 5 year plans.

I still participate on technical projects but only of large size, and mentor the team on any projects I'm not participating on.

Thank you NI !

As senior manager of global network engineering, I was responsible for all networking technologies worldwide for National instruments. This includes:
Global WAN
Global Colocation
Global LAN services
Branch network infrastructure
Cloud networking
Network firewalls & corporate edge
Data Center networking

I also managed the network engineering group in charge of all the architecture, design

Worked as Global Network Team Manager at National Instruments at NI (National Instruments).

I've had the privilege to work on almost all aspects of NI's global network. I've designed and implemented solutions for MPLS (Setting up fast failover over BGP, for example), worked on DMVPN, Security (designed a Zone Based Firewall configuration for all internet facing routers globally) to list a few.

I've designed and traveled to turn up or upgrade networks in Colombia, Chile, Japan and Malay

Worked as General Manager at Inteligencia Informatica.

Support a Hub-and-Spoke static VPN network of 110+ routers for Medquest Associates.
Experimented on OSPF networks and reliable static routing with object tracking.
Helped in developing processes and procedures for the Network Operations Team

Support a Hub-and-Spoke static VPN network of 110+ routers for Medquest Associates.
Experimented on OSPF networks and reliable static routing with object tracking.
Helped in developing processes and procedures for the Network Operations Team

1. Provided support to PA-RISC servers and Itanium Servers running on the HP-UX platform.
2.Provided support for windows 2003 server on Itanium servers.
3. Gave mentoring to all the team, including refresher training and new employees training along with the senior support specialist from Canada.
4. Performed testing on new applications for the HP Research and development team, as part of their te

1+ year on the wireless team.


Gave additional support to Ciscoworks devices and secure ACS server.

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Issued Dec 2013 · Expired Dec 2018