Joby Sam CBE, Head of IT

Joby Sam CBE

Head of IT

DHL Global Forwarding

Location
Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science And Engineering
Experience
17 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months

Head of IT at DHL Global Forwarding
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since March 2010

Nominated as the IT Data Protection Officer and IT Security Officer for Kuwait from 2020.

IT lead for DHL Global Forwarding Stations in Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq

Spearheading two digital transformation projects - a Next Generation Digital Workspace and Network Intrusion Prevention System

Led the deployment of LOGIS platform in DHL Kuwait and later executed the migration from LOGIS Ocean and Land freight to Cargo wise in 2018 and LOGIS Air to Cargo wise Air in 2020.

Headed the migration of client servers environment to cloud based.

Standardized and implemented financial ERP system in Kuwait and Iraq.

Developed and led the implementation of a warehouse management system for SAIC in Kuwait.

Directed the development of IT infrastructure development and deployment for Huawei In Qatar.

Led the team for providing wireless LAN connectivity to Ericsson, I2, Abbott, Bayer, Astronomica, Nokia and Mindware.

Managed the migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 to Windows 10.

IT Support Analyst at Agility Logistics, Kuwait
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • October 2007 to November 2010

Handled multiple roles as an IT Support Analyst including IT System Administrator, IT Service Desk, IT Support Engineer and IT Workshop Engineer.

Coordinated with network engineering, business application and database administration functions to implement desktop and server systems.

Ensured the integrity and security of enterprise data on host computers, multiple databases, and data transfer meeting privacy, security and regulatory compliance.

Coordinated with network engineering, business application and database administration functions to implement desktop and server systems.

Administered Active Directory services, Exchange services, Blackberry Internet services, Blackberry Enterprise Server.

NOC Engineer at Tawasul Services
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • March 2007 to September 2007

Monitoring the Corporate Network for detecting and Resolving any Faulty that Occur and attest network stability.

Provide Support, Maintain, and Troubleshoot Network Necessities. Add New Nodes To The Existing Network, Configure Them and Maintain.

Technical Support Executive at Sutherland Global Services
  • India - Cochin
  • December 2006 to March 2007

Provide 1st Technical Support for all Corporate and Private users from (USA, UK, Canada) of our clients products which includes detects failure of service or performance of the purchased product.

Provide 2nd level Technical Support and troubleshoot service or functional failures that doesn't meet the fully tested software approved by the client.

Maintain and update documentation and communicate with client (Symantec, HP) about the solutions and patches.

Product Engineer at FITCO Technical Services
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • August 2006 to October 2006

Provide Technical informational Guidance and Support for all retail customers and users which includes features, benefits, advantages, disadvantages and assist customers to choose the right product that fits their requirement and needs.

Report and transfer failure of service or performance of the purchased product issues to the workshop.

Maintain and update documentation and communicate with Vendors for warranty / guarantee claims for the customers and corporate clients.

Production Engineer at Ambit Proview InfoTech
  • India
  • December 2004 to February 2005

Designing of Circuit Board for desired product, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) treatment, Hardware and Component assembly which includes Capacitors, Static Thermostats, Resistors, microprocessors…etc

Quality control (QA/QC) of Industry Standard assembly and configurations for microprocessors of the assembly completed product and attestation.

2nd level technical engineer for service or performance failure products from the production floor and retail user / client

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science And Engineering
  • at Pondicherry University
  • January 2004

Specialties & Skills

Administration
Production
Active Directory
Routers
Technical Support
Project Management
Blockchain
Systems Engineering
Troubleshooting
IT Security Operations
LAN-WAN
Infrastructure Management
Data Privacy
Data Protection

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
French
Beginner

Memberships

BLOCKCHAIN COUNCIL
  • Certified Blockchain Expert
  • February 2021
Kuwait Society of Engineers (KSE)
  • Accredited & Certified Computer Engineer
  • January 2018

Training and Certifications

DePICT PM 101 (Certificate)
Diploma in Hardware & Networking (Certificate)
Data Science Architecture (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2020
Tableau Masters (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2020
Machine Learning Masters (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2020
Customized : ITIL (Certificate)
Python for Data Science (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2020
Power BI Masters (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2020
Statistics for Data Science (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2020
Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA (Certificate)
Microsoft Certified Professional - MCP (Certificate)
Certified Blockchain Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2021

Hobbies

  • Advisor & Technical Consultant
    MAC Technical Documentation contributor for the white paper of New Cryptocurrency in the Middle East