xbm021
Fraud Investigations & Risk Analyst
Fraud and risk specialist with 15+ years across operations, risk, and high-volume fraud investigation. Former Amazon Buyer Risk Investigations (BRI) specialist who decisioned ~90 to 110 cases per day at a 97% monthly accuracy rating and was named Top Performer (Dec 2017), investigating payment fraud, account takeover, and buyer fraud. Pairs hands-on investigative judgment with Python and SQL detection tooling, having built two anti-money-laundering and transaction-monitoring engines on datasets exceeding one million transactions and evaluated them honestly against ground-truth labels. Founder of a nine-year equipment-rental business whose identity-screening model held losses near 0.6% with no deposits and no credit checks. C2 English. Seeking remote Fraud, Risk, or Trust & Safety roles.
Experience: 8 years
Yearly salary: $50,000
Hourly rate: $25
Nationality: 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Residency: 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Experience
Technical Operations & Deliverability Lead
Global Sales Solutions 2018 - 2021
Configured DNS and email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) to authenticate sending domains, raising open rates from roughly 2% to roughly 25% for key clients. Managed the full email lifecycle, including IP warm-up and list hygiene, while monitoring Mailgun dashboards to catch bounce spikes and deliverability failures.
Fraud Investigation Specialist, Buyer Risk Investigations (BRI)
Amazon 2017 - 2018
Investigated buyer-side fraud in the BRI queue, covering payment fraud, account takeover, and reinstatement of legitimate compromised accounts across high-volume transaction queues. Decisioned ~90 to 110 cases per day (about 2 to 4 minutes each) using behavioral analysis (modus operandi), IP geolocation, device fingerprinting, and velocity checks. Maintained a 97% monthly decision-accuracy rating and was named Top Performer in December 2017 while exceeding productivity targets. Cleared a dormant, low-history account flagged for a sudden ~$50K order of roughly 20 high-end computers by cross-referencing public professional profiles and confirming directly with the verified cardholder; the purchase was a legitimate new business, and the verification prevented a false-positive decline. Surfaced emerging fraud patterns to the policy team to help refine automated detection logic.
Agile Project Manager
Hangar 2015 - 2016
Led cross-functional web-development teams using Scrum to deliver interactive projects on time and on budget.
Operations Manager & Country Lead
PSD2HTML 2010 - 2015
Co-launched the Costa Rica branch, managing incorporation, banking, and infrastructure; recruited and trained a 10-person sales team; scaled weekly order volume from roughly 20 to roughly 115.
Skills
amazon
project-manager
python
sql
kyc
english
spanish