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JEAN BERTI AZAR

Senior Fraud Detection Specialist

Behavioral Analytics & AI Automation | Multilingual

Montreal, Qc. | CA.
+33 6 50 31 67 39

About Me

Fraud Analyst Specialist with extensive expertise in behavioral analytics, AI automation, and financial crime investigation. With a proven track record of designing and deploying AI-powered fraud detection systems that have increased efficiency by 45% and reduced false positives by 60%, I bring a unique combination of technical proficiency and investigative expertise. My background spans fraud analysis, OSINT consulting, software development, and private investigation, providing a comprehensive approach to complex fraud detection and prevention challenges.

Professional Experience

Risk and Fraud Analyst - N3

JUNE 2023 - Present

ALMA | Financial Sector Company

  • Identification of suspicious transactional patterns, behavioral analysis, and complex technical schemes
  • Design and optimize fraud detection rules and calibrate thresholds to minimize false positives.
  • Led a big data fraud analytics project, analysing large‑scale transactional flows to uncover complex behavioural patterns and advanced fraud schemes.
  • Specialized digital investigation for enrichment, corroboration, and resolution of discrepancies in financial transaction and AML-CFT analyses, including in-depth due diligence and transactional risk profiling
  • Designed and deployed 5 AI-powered fraud detection agents, increasing suspicious transaction identification efficiency by +45% while processing 12,000+ daily transactions and false positive reduction of +60%
  • Designed and deployed proprietary AML agents, increasing compliance team productivity by 70% through automated transaction risk scoring and alert prioritization
  • Cross-functional Collaboration with product, data, and technical teams for improvement of risky payment detection and prevention processes via Machine Learning, increasing the real-time detection rate by 30%.

Consultant OSINT B2B

OCT 2022 - Present

SATURN-B | freelance - OSINT consulting

  • Specialised OSINT consulting services for B2B clients in the investigation sector, developing advanced digital investigation frameworks and reducing investigation times by 30%.

Backend Java Programmer

AUGUST 2021 - SEPTEMBER 2022

INETUM | Digital Services Company

  • Collaboration on a project to restructure corporate pension savings contracts on behalf of a leading financial services provider as part of regulatory modernisation.

Private Investigation Agent

MAY 2017 - JUNE 2019

PRIVATE CABINET - NDA | Private investigation firm

License: n°CAR-059-2022-07-03-20170566032 (not renewed)

  • Knowledge of French private, civil, and administrative law
  • Investigation and surveillance of legal entities and individuals & OSINT
  • Logistical and strategic organization

Interpreter

NOVEMBER 2016 - OCTOBER 2019

PUBLIC SERVICES | Customs - Police - Lawyers

  • Spanish language interpreter for interrogations and court hearings

Skills

Professional Skills

Financial investigation and fraud analysis Data Analytics & Transaction Monitoring Behavioral Analytics OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) & Digital Investigation specialist AI & Advanced Automation KYC (Know Your Customer) and advanced Due Diligence Risk Assessment & Scoring Models Cross-functional team collaboration (tech, data, compliance, product) Technical Project Management of analysis and fraud detection Trainer & Knowledge Transfer PEP/SL (Politically Exposed Persons) Screening Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) Compliance & Investigation Back end programmer | Java | SQL | JS

Soft Skills

Teamwork Communication Conflict management Pro active

Tools & Technologies

Payment & Fraud Detection
Adyen Stripe Checkout.com Onfido
Investigation & Intelligence
OpenSanctions ofac Intelligence X Tor Edison TD Forensic tools
Programming Languages
JavaScript Rubi Java
Databases & Frameworks
MySQL Rails
Technologies & Platforms
RPA (Robotic Process Automation) API Development Scripting LLMs Dust ai N8N Notion Dlack Google Workspace | Sheets Trello Git Looker

Education

Application Designer & Developer | MASTER I

DECEMBER 2020 - AUGUST 2021

EURATECHNOLOGIE

Java | SQL | JS | API | Database Conception | Software Architecture | Database Optimization | API Development

Coding Bootcamp

JULY 2019 - SEPTEMBER 2019

LE WAGON

BOOTCAMP | RUBY | RAILS | JS | SQL

Professional Qualification Certificate - CQP - Agent de Recherches Privées

OCTOBER 2016 - MAY 2017

École supérieure des Agents de Recherche Privées (ESARP)

Baccalauréat STMG

JULY 2010

CANDIDAT LIBRE

Languages

French Native
Spanish Native
English Fluent
Arabic Advanced