About DHORIZON
In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving digital landscape, businesses face the constant challenge of harnessing technology to drive growth and innovation.
This is where DHORIZON comes into play, and is here to offer its expertise to help your organization.
With about 20 years’ experience of architecture, innovation, strategic management and consulting in various environments (public and private companies, national & international, Telecom and IT service providers), I offer tailored support to optimize your operations, streamline processes, and maximize your technological investments. My goal is to empower your organization to navigate the complexities of the modern digital world with confidence.
Navigating the complexities of IT and its seamless integration with business objectives is my passion. With a background deeply rooted in both realms, I am dedicated to bringing strategic solutions that are tailored to your unique needs.
Whether you're a small startup aiming to establish your digital presence or an established company seeking to optimize your operations, I am committed to understanding your challenges and objectives. By doing so, I can provide practical insights and strategies that work for you.
I believe that every business is unique, and there's no one-size-fits-all solution. I am attentive to understand your specific challenges, goals, and aspirations. I'm here to listen, collaborate, and guide you through every step of the process.
My approach is simple: I'm not just a consultant; I'm a partner in your evolution journey. Your success is my success.
My services encompass a wide range of areas, including:
Business & IT Transformation Strategy
Enterprise Architecture
IT Infrastructure & Security Management
Portfolio & Program management
IT governance
Process optimization & Automation
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Meet Sophie
Senior leader in Information Technology, with about 20 years’ experience of architecture, innovation and strategic management in various environments (public and private, national & international, Telecom and IT).
- Recognised transversal analytical capabilities to identify technical strategies and translate them into evolutions roadmaps (incl. organizational impacts) - bridging enterprise architectures, governance and technical solutions with business needs & vision
- Strongly motivated by company transformation challenges & related technology enablement
- Consistently aiming, in partnership with collaborators and corporate leaders, for initiatives to meet new business ambitions or raise the standard for performance, quality, and efficiency
Education
Master of science in Electrical Engineering
2005 - 2007
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE
Grade: Highest honors (Summa cum laude)
Specialty: Telecommunications
Master of science in Polytchnic Engineering
1995 - 2000
Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium
Grade: High honors (Magna cum laude)
Specialty: Telecommunications
Languages
French
Written - Read - Spoken
(mother tongue)
English
Written - Read - Spoken
(fluent)
Dutch
Written - Read - Spoken
(advanced)
Professional Experience
Senior Business Consultant
2023 - Present
DHORIZON, Rixensart, BE
- Assisting & advising DHORIZON's clients to scope, assess, realize, and maintain the several projects they have envisioned.
- Key areas covered: Business & IT transformation strategy, Enterprise Architecture, IT Infrastructure & Security Management, Portfolio & Program management, IT governance including process optimization & automation.
- Duties can involve interim management in the context of the above areas.
Senior Transformational Consultant
2019 - 2023
NTT, Brussels, BE
- Assisting & advising NTT consulting clients to scope, assess, realize, and maintain the several projects they have envisioned.
- Duties involve as well transversal architecture support to lead the end to end definition and delivery of multi-domain solutions across NTT service units and the development of new consulting practices & methods.
- Key areas covered: IT strategy & management, Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, DevOps & Automation, Product & Project Portfolio management and IT governance, where I worked from inception to the realization of complex projects.
Network & IT infrastructure Architecture Manager
2016 - 2019
BICS, Brussels, BE
- Leading the Network & IT infrastructure architecture team aiming to develop BICS infrastructure vision and roadmap and the subsequent architecture guidelines & technology standards.
- Aside regular support to engineering team, my team performed leading analysis or trials on the following: WAN & Datacenter automation, WAN-SDN tooling, network disaggregation, cloud services enablement, software defined datacenter and Infra as a Code models.
- Major contribution into strategy assessment (as technology track lead), addressing BICS growth & diversification ambitions, in a 3 to 7 years time horizon.
Network Engineering Manager
2012 - 2016
BICS, Brussels, BE
- Leading a 20+ engineering team in charge of BICS worldwide Backbone & Datacenter networks in support of Capacity, Signalling, Voice and Mobile business lines.
- Duties involved: team management, strategic roadmap & tactical planning, technology evangelisation, team portfolio & program management, cpacity and capability planning; financial budgetting Á control, suppliers management, RFP management & contract negociations; seamless collaboration with all product lines and other supporting departments.
Senior Infrastructure Architect & Senior ICT Innovation Architect
2010 - 2012
bpost, Brussels, BE
- Technical design and strategy definition for network and communications related designs for a range of infrastructure projects. Duties included architecture design, lab proof of concepts, technology & market trend watching, steering of engineering deliveries for relevant projects and business workshops conduct.
- Delivered strategies for bpost ICT, including short and long-term Cloud strategy, Bring Your Own Device and Unified Communication.
Researcher & Teaching assistant
2010
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, US
- Teaching Assistant in networking technologies.
- Research Assistant for the design of solutions which, during large-scale disasters, intelligently assist and guide emergency teams during the victim identification, evacuation and dispatching processes. Technologies and solutions involved: RFID, wireless, mobile broadband, database, data processing, UI development. Tasks included: research, grant proposals writing, developing systems and databases and managing the team of researchers.
Military Officer & Network Engineering Manager
2001 - 2010
Belgian Defense, Brussels, BE
- In 2008 & 2009, I served 2 years as long- and mid-term project & budget manager in the general headquarters. Responsible for drafting the technical and financial strategic plan for the Belgian Defense’s Infrastructure Network.
- Until end 2007, I managed successively the data/voice WAN engineering team and Carrier Team and became Head Design Engineer. Duties involved: team management, network design & advanced troubleshooting, project management, market investigation, budget planning and transversal suoervision of the overall engineering activities.
