Kia Boesen Thomsen has studied a Master of Science in Health Technology and is currently a Consultant in Delegate's Data & AI team.
In high school, Kia Boesen Thomsen was sure she would study medicine. Still, instead, she chose to study for an engineering diploma in Health Technology, which combines electronics and IT with health professional knowledge and understanding:
"I have a great interest in the body and the entire health domain, so Health Technology appealed to me because the education has both an emphasis on the technical and, at the same time, the communicative aspect between healthcare professionals and IT."
And precisely the interaction between people and technology was one of the things that attracted Kia to the studio, but it was not without reservations that she chose a technical education:
“When I was choosing a program, I was unsure if it would be too technical for my taste. I didn't have any coding experience, but I quickly found out that I wasn't expected to, and I quickly became familiar with programming already in the first semester.”
As a Consultant in the Delegate's Data & AI team, Kia no longer has a healthcare angle to her work. Instead, she helps customers create data platforms:
“I help our customers get the most out of their data - for example, by helping them support their business and achieve growth by gaining insights through data. I'm technically involved in building the data platform, where we bring together different data sources, transform and model data, and I'm also very much involved in communicating with our customers and clarifying what their needs are.”
And it is the diversity of Kia's tasks that makes her work exciting:
"I think it's really cool that I can both geek out on the technical side and build some complicated logic, but also help define the architecture, talk to the customers, and get the project running. I get to take a lot of responsibility and initiative and try new tasks, making it exciting to go to work every day.”
While Kia herself was nervous that the Health Technology program was too technical, she finds that it is important to dispel any misconceptions about working with IT and emphasizes the importance of IT solutions that create real value and support customer needs:
“IT is not just about building IT. It's about building IT that actually creates value for users. It's no use building a super smart space rocket if no one needs a space rocket. It's important to focus on the users and clarify their needs on an ongoing basis. And then there are so many degrees of involvement in the technical aspects, where you can choose to go all-in on the technical aspects or choose to be more involved in the dialog and clarification with the customer.”
What would you say to a woman considering entering the IT industry?
"You don't have to be afraid of sitting in a basement developing and never seeing the light of day. It is very much about communication and collaboration, and if you think that communication is exciting, then you will also think that IT is exciting.”
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