Carlos Castillo
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Twenty years, three lanes at once

Technology, advertising and music. They were never separate chapters — they were parallel lanes that ended up in the same place.

In short

Multidisciplinary creative, with the technical side handled

Design, branding, digital solutions and marketing. I connect ideas, systems and visuals so your brand can communicate with clarity, emotion and purpose.

01
What do I do?
I create alternative, practical solutions that add real value to your brand, project or company. Not just pretty visuals: tools that help you move forward.
02
What is it for?
To connect you with global tools and smart processes, so your core operations become clearer, more efficient and ready to grow.
03
Why me?
Because I combine passion, experience, strategic clarity and empathy for what you want to achieve. I treat every project as if it were my own, focused on results that feel good and work in real life.
Career

Not a ladder — three parallel lanes

Most careers get told as a ladder: one step ends, the next begins. Mine didn't work that way. For years I ran a corporate technology job, a media outlet I founded and led, and a design brand that is still alive — all at the same time. The overlaps in this timeline are not mistakes.

Dates and roles verified against my LinkedIn and my CVs going back to 2010.

01
2001 — 2004

The foundation

Supervisor · CDC Cantv · Caracas
  • IT Support
  • Team Supervision
  • Process Documentation

Staff administration, cash close and technology resources, while studying Computer Science. This is where I learned what held everything else up: a process nobody documents is a process that breaks.

  • Associate's degree in Computer Science, IUTV (2001 — 2004)
02
2005 — 2013

Corporate scale

Technology project lead · Oil & gas company
  • Tech Project Leadership
  • GIS & ESRI
  • Solutions Architecture
  • Corporate Design

Eight years leading technology projects to improve the core processes of a heavy industry. I ran a team of specialists, the budget and the analysis for each project — alongside my own work as webmaster, solutions architect, corporate designer and Geographic Information Systems analyst on the ESRI suite.

  • GeoGas, my GIS project, took first place from ESRI as best use of geographic information systems in the oil and gas sector. It won in 2007 and won again in 2013.
  • A team of specialists, the budget and the technical analysis under my responsibility
  • Technology architecture, content management systems and open-source migration
ESRI recognition
The award
Geographic information layers
GIS layers
Gas pipeline network
Pipelines
03
2006 — 2014

VzlaReggaeZine

Founder, CEO and webmaster · 7 years 8 months
  • Digital Publishing
  • Content Strategy
  • Community Management
  • Google Analytics
  • Business Modeling

I built a digital outlet from nothing and ran it for almost eight years: site development, business model, content production, community management and PR. A reggae e-zine that operated with no real competition in its market.

  • It became the number one in the Spanish-speaking world for technology, editorial, content quality and breaking news — confirmed by the social metrics of the time and by Google's data
  • Peak figures as of the end of 2011: over 10,000 monthly visits, 30,000 followers on Twitter, 10,000 on Facebook and 3,000 mailing-list subscribers
  • Accredited press at Rototom Sunsplash (Spain) and Reggae Sumfest (Jamaica), and at every festival in Venezuela between 2007 and 2014
  • Associate's degree in Advertising, IUTV (2009 — 2012), studied in parallel
VzlaReggaeZine, the site
The site
VzlaReggaeZine, inner section
Sections
VzlaReggaeZine, homepage
Homepage
04
2011 — 2014

Artist manager

Goyo Mijares · Ava Music Makers
  • Artist Management
  • Media Planning
  • Brand Strategy
  • Launch Strategy

Brand strategy applied to people: career media plans for the United States and Latin America, promo and album launches, social image development, websites built to each artist's profile, and tour design based on demand by country.

  • Systematic study of aggregator platforms for releases
  • Redesign of live shows and audiovisual production
Ava Music Makers
Ava Music Makers
Ava Music Makers live
Campaign
Goyo Mijares
Goyo Mijares
05
2014 — 2025

castillocarlos.com, in parallel

My own brand · 11 years without closing
  • Brand Strategy
  • Web Development
  • Social Media & Community Management
  • Meta Ads & Funnels
  • Landing Page Design
  • Geomarketing

For eleven years my own brand ran alongside the corporate job and never closed. Corporate and personal websites, branding and identity, social media strategy, GIS and geomarketing projects, design and consulting — at night and on weekends.

  • Branding and identity, web development, geomarketing and GIS
  • Clients in Venezuela and the United States, alongside a full-time job
castillocarlos.com
The brand
Castillo Group
Castillo Group
Client work
Client work
06
2018 — 2025

Logistics at real scale

Textile Logistic → DSV · New Jersey
  • Warehouse Operations
  • WMS & SAP
  • Process Improvement
  • Team Leadership
  • E-commerce

Supervisor at Textile Logistic and, from 2020, five years at DSV across three roles: WMS troubleshooter, system key user, and finally Operations Supervisor in Carteret. The whole chain, inbound to outbound, with teams to lead and KPIs that either land or don't.

  • Operations Supervisor in Carteret, from December 2024 to August 2025
  • Putaway and allocation algorithms, masterdata, routing and second-line support
  • Artificial intelligence applied to the operation since 2023
  • In parallel I built CASMAT, my Amazon store, which I ran from December 2023 to late 2024
CASMAT logo
CASMAT
Store operation
The operation
08
Aug 2025 — today

Full time

castillocarlos.com · all in
  • AI Video Production
  • Automation
  • Branding
  • Web Development
  • Client Communication

In August 2025 I left the logistics operation and went all in on the brand. Everything you see in the portfolio and on the services page comes out of this past year: branding, websites, campaigns, AI video production and process automation.

  • Three YouTube channels of my own — V1 Aviation Pro, Milenio Bíblico and Crónicas del Caos Digital — where I handle branding, art direction, AI video production, scripting, music production and FX
  • AI video production and automation applied to client work
  • Twenty years of technology, advertising and media, finally in a single lane
V1 Aviation Pro channel
V1 Aviation Pro
Milenio Bíblico channel
Milenio Bíblico
Crónicas del Caos Digital
Next step

Let's talk before you spend on the wrong thing

A 30-minute conversation is enough to know whether you need identity, a site, campaigns, or all three. If the project isn't a fit for me, I'll say so and point you somewhere useful anyway.

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