Welcome to my portfolio website! I'm a technology consultant at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and here I will be showcasing my skills and experience along with projects I've made.
My name is Sien Van Broekhoven and currently I'm working at Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a technology consultant in the hybrid IT practice. I graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors degree Electronics - ICT (Cloud & Cyber Security) from the Thomas More university in Geel, Belgium, in 2021.
Informatics and technology have always interested me a lot, so after completing my high school education of Accountancy/ICT I was very motivated to further my studies in computer science. After a first year of getting to know some of the aspects of computer science: programming, networking, and IOT; I decided to continue my studies in the networking area, so Cloud and Cyber Security. The aspects of networking, cloud/hybrid infrastructure, and security are the most interesting to me.
When I'm not studying or working there are a few things that I enjoy doing in my free time. I play the piano and I'm learning to play both the drums and guitar. Currently I'm not very good at either of them, but I enjoy practicing and seeing myself get better over time.
Working at a busy restaurant as a jobstudent has taught me how to perform efficiently in stressful situations.
I enjoy learning about new technologies, which makes me motivated to keep on learning.
I'm a very independent person, so I will not need to rely on anyone to execute my job properly. But I also enjoy working in teams to learn from my teammates.
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Different types of problems, the boundaries of what makes a problem solvable, and the different algorithms, rules, and heuristics we can implement to solve these problems.
The history of cognitive science and the way these ideas shape how we think of artificial cognition.
How individual problem solving, judgment, and decision making can be influenced by interpersonal and developmental factors.
Vision as a cognitive problem space and models that address various vision tasks. How the boundaries of these problems lead to a more complex analysis of the mind and the brain and how these explorations lead to more complex computational models of understanding.
The ways in which our current understanding of human thinking is both illuminated and challenged by the evolving techniques and ideas of artificial intelligence and computer science.
For this three-month internship at Hewlett Packard Enterprise I designed an architecture model to provide centralized server- and identity management and authentication in a hybrid IT environment. This project was developed with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption framework and security best practices in mind, and serves as a framework for projects involving hybrid IT environments
For the course "Project Hosting" of my education a few students and I designed a system that makes it possible for people to host their web projects on our server. The project includes everything from the configuration of virtual machines to the creation of a secured interface.
A few students and I designed a solution that improves the efficiency in the municipal workers jobs, and improves the communication between civillians and city government for the city of Herentals, by developing a Smart city solution for them.
In this project we made use of sensors to measure the amount of people in a room. This number was then sent to a database and displayed on a website for monitoring purposes.
