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Inspiring stories of women in tech.
In our "bloom" series, we publish stories of inspiring women in the tech sector. These amazing people all have a unique path and their own definition of success. Our goal is to inspire you to go for your goals and dreams, no matter how ambitious, average or different. We hope to show that the tech sector can be a perfect path for women who want to make an impact on the world.
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bloom: Athena Van Migem
How does someone with an English-French teacher's degree get into the IT world? Helping people is what drives Athena. Rather accidentally, she started her career at a tech company and last year she found the ideal job at Arxus: Customer Success Manager in a Cloud Infra environment. Why that position is a perfect fit for Athena, she explains here.
bloom: Lien Keulemans
Her passion for technology brought bioengineer Lien Keulemans to the data consulting firm Sparkle after a career of more than 15 years in consulting and biotech. As Managing Partner, she values human leadership. Find out how she aims to become the best version of herself!
bloom: Barbara Delchambre
Barbara is an SAP consultant at Flexso and works as a business analyst in the Business Transformation team. It's the ideal job for someone with an analytical mind and a passion for inspiring people and taking them with her through change. Barbara does it with as much perseverance as the marathons she runs. A driven mind in a healthy body.
bloom: Valeska Remmery
Valeska was working as a software tester when she began training as an analyst-programmer. It soon became apparent that she enjoyed programming as much as testing. Fortunately, there is such a thing as test programming, so Valeska became a test automation engineer at Refleqt. Sometimes life seems predetermined!
bloom: Keesha Vanhoudt
The daughter of two gaming parents, Keesha grew up in a world of computers and virtual gaming fun. That world turned out to be totally her thing. She consciously chose a computer science degree and a challenging job in tech.
bloom: Inge De Swaene
Inge De Swaene has been working in service-related tech jobs since 2005. She got into it by accident, she says, but when you read her story, the words "talent" and "well-deserved" come to mind. Meanwhile, in addition to being a proud mother of three sons, she is also a founding partner of Bulls-i. Like her family, Inge runs her business with an enormous drive and a high dose of empathy.
bloom: Hanne Vandael
Hanne Vandael has been working at RedMojo 🌶️ as a People Analytics Consultant since September 2022. After studying occupational psychology and a first work experience in HR, she took a different route once she found her interest in data. Find out how Hanne co-founded this start-up in People Analytics!
bloom: Amina Vloeberghs
"I love working so much!" You believe it immediately. Amina's expressive eyes and permanent smile emphasize every word she says. Inspiring ladies and IT. It's apparently a natural combination.🤩🤩
Bloom: Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere
Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere makes a particularly energetic impression throughout the interview. And yet she calls herself functionally lazy. "I'm someone who really doesn't get energy from stupid, repetitive actions, but prefers to be creative," she says."⚡💡
Bloom: Kim Verbist
"Project management involves more than people often think. It requires both technical knowledge and soft skills as well as the necessary patience to go through the full life cycle of a project step by step." Discover the story of Kim Verbist 🤩
bloom: Lieve Heylen
Lieve Heylen does not like to be the centre of attention. She prefers to be the unobtrusive driving force, the person who makes things happen. Calm, with a healthy dose of self-confidence. And she radiates it.
Bloom: Eva Bouton
Eva Bouton looks very neat. That is not necessarily relevant to this interview, until you hear that she made her dress herself. This SAP Consultant is clearly multi-talented. And that's an understatement.
Bloom: Bo Van de Poel
And then Bo entered the room. One lump of energy! Very focused on her job as HR Teamlead at Arxus, but she finds having fun with colleagues at least as important. Bo Van de Poel learned early on to put things in perspective. This is to a large extent the result of her unforeseen life story.
Bloom: Iona Varga
What. A. Cool. Human being. Iona Varga looks impressive and so is her brain. She easily translates complex mathematical matters into clear concepts. Knowledge without airs and graces and a no-nonsense approach with clear insights.
Bloom: Marjolein Callant
"GSP is in my heart," admits Marjolein Callant. She says it seriously, with a proud smile. SAP CRM is the thread that runs through her technological career. The determined path she followed brought her, after about ten years, to Flexso where she is now Competence Lead. Flexso appears to be the ideal company for a driven woman like Marjolein, who works as a home cook in addition to her full-time job. 💪🏻
Bloom: Wendy Nys
Maximum 20% routine. For Wendy Nys, the other 80% may be more challenging. That is her attitude in life and that is also the balance she is looking for in her work. Wendy has been Customer Success Manager at Arxus for a year now. It is a job in which she can perfectly combine her technical knowledge with her soft skills. It is a logical step in her flourishing career, but it is certainly not a final destination.
Bloom: Lana Sakkoul
Lana chose system and network management as her specialisation and during her final semester she is doing an internship at FlowFactor. It is Lana's dream to become a successful ICT woman. According to her, technical knowledge, skills and experience are the most important ingredients for success. We suspect that her perseverance will also help.
Bloom: Leonor Drummond
Since childhood, Leonor has been passionate about technology and science. After studying veterinary medicine in Portugal and travelling through the Philippines, she retrained in one year.
Because of her eagerness to learn and search for innovation, today she proudly calls herself Data Scientist at Brainjar!
Bloom: Jolien De Clercq
What if you could turn any passion into a working business model? Jolien De Clercq can, whether it is about her innovative tech start-up Blue Goose or her passion for photography and travel.
Bloom: Céline Verwilligen
"Working as a DevOps Engineer really is a social and a caring job. You're not sitting at your computer all the time and you're helping people." Meet Céline Verwilligen. Not your usual ICT-girl!