Héloïse Ramard

AlterID is a pioneering startup specializing in data protection solutions, with a strong focus on healthcare. Our mission is to enable companies to leverage the power of data while ensuring full regulatory compliance with GDPR. As Project Manager at AlterID, I was involved in the project from inception through to its commercial launch in 2024. - Product strategy & roadmap: Conducted competitive analysis, defined and prioritized product features, wrote user stories, and created detailed roadmaps for development. - Team leadership: Managed a team of 5 developers, coordinated sprints, maintained the backlog, and documentation. - Executive reporting: Defined key performance metrics to track project progress, prepared comprehensive reports for the C-suite and board of directors. - Healthcare ecosystem engagement: With a shift to specialize in health data at the end of 2023, I actively participated in Health Data Hub events, handled the collaboration with HOPSIIA, a healthcare startup, to align product features with health data regulations. - Partnerships and grants: Managed partnerships for EU Horizon funding and secured additional funding through BPI programs (i-Lab/i-Nov), contributed to CNIL's project on healthcare data compliance by preparing detailed regulatory proposals.

As a part of Samsung's global initiative to embed a multilingual voice assistant across all devices (smartphones, TVs, wearables, and smart speakers), I joined Harman International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, in early 2018 as a developer and later advanced to the role of Project Manager in mid 2019. Bixby 2.0 launched successfully in the European market, especially in France with strong local content providers such as Allociné, Marmiton and SNCF. - Product leadership: Guided the planning and execution of Bixby 2.0 features, roadmaps, and release plans for the French-speaking region. - Cross-functional coordination: Collaborated with global Samsung teams and local content providers to curate and integrate local content as voice-enabled services. - Development oversight: Led cross-disciplinary scrum teams including developers, QA, UX designers, and localization experts to deliver a high-quality voice assistant experience. - Stakeholder management: Acted as the principal liaison with stakeholders between Paris and Seoul, aligning product goals, requirements, and timelines. - Localization strategy: Managed French language-specific features ensuring relevance for local users. - Quality assurance & launch execution: Orchestrated testing phases, user feedback cycles, and launch support efforts. - Team transition & project closure: Oversaw final deliverables, documentation, and team handoff during the decommissioning of the project in early 2021.

- Collaborated directly with Professor Seung‑Ah Lee, head of the English Language and Literature department of Ewha Womans University, to conduct empirical research on adverbial usage in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), compiling, analyzing, and organizing findings into a comprehensive research report. - Awarded the BK21 (Brain Korea 21) scholarship, a competitive South Korean government-funded program that supports outstanding full‑time graduate students. - Sponsored to attend and present original research at the 4th GDUFS Forum on Applied Linguistics, held in Guangzhou, China, on December 3-4, 2016.