James Stone Woodard
Fraud Prevention Program Manager
- Role
- Payments & Fraud Prevention Program Manager - Compromised Accounts at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Stone Woodard
I am a results-driven program manager with over a decade of experience leading global…
Experience
Payments & Fraud Prevention Program Manager - Compromised Accounts
Jul 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Directed cross-functional fraud detection initiatives using CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Athena, and custom rule-based/ML-driven risk scoring models to identify compromised AWS accounts, including cases involving API key exposure, internal misuse, and external account takeovers for activities such as crypto mining, phishing infrastructure, and spam campaigns- Led end-to-end fraud mitigation playbooks across EC2, Lambda, RDS, and S3 services—triaging SEV-2 incidents, isolating malicious workloads, implementing temporary account restrictions, and coordinating with service teams to prevent further resource abuse or financial loss- Partnered with data scientists and engineering teams to develop preventive controls (velocity checks, IP reputation filtering, resource usage anomaly detection) and post-incident analysis frameworks, reducing false positives by optimizing fraud detection signals while improving time-to-detection and cost recovery for EC2 instances and enterprise level customer accounts.
Education
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government
2010 — 2015
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