Marinés Rivera

Experience

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  Senate of Puerto Rico

  Jun 1997 - Sept 1999

  Director of the Banking, Consumer's Affairs and Public Corporations Commission

  • Leveraged comprehensive knowledge of legislative procedures to draft reports based on the bills and investigations presented for consideration to the Senate. • Actively supported the creation of the new Banking Law of Puerto Rico of 1997, New Venture Capital Law of Puerto Rico of 2000, and Insurance laws among others. • Supervised 8 employees, and updated and maintained the operating manuals related to the administrative functions of the office. • Lobbied bills for, and was administrative and legal counsel to, the President of the Committee. Show less

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  Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of Puerto Rico

  Jul 1999 - Oct 2001

  Legal Counsel

  • Led several investigations assessing the strength and limitations of financial institutions laws, such as: Capital Venture, Securities, Banking, Credit Unions and others. • Revised estate laws and regulations for compliance with Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. • Evaluated bills submitted to the Commissioner by the Puerto Rico Legislature, and handled complaints filed by affected individuals. • Drafted orders and resolutions, among other legal documents.

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  Carlos Albizu University

  Jul 2003 - Dec 2004

  Trainer

  • Designed and conducted seminars for staff of the Corrections Department. Topics included Sexual Harassment, Mediation, Legal Rights of Imprisoned Clients, Integrated Vision of the Penal System, How to Write Technical Reports; done in coordination with the University and the Corrections Department of Puerto Rico. • Evaluated the performance of social workers in the Corrections Department to confirm their knowledge.

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  Private Practice Legal Professional Services

  Nov 2004 - Nov 2010

  Executive

  • Designed and conducted seminars and workshops related to the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with specific emphasis on regulatory compliance and legislative procedures. • Drafted and upgraded procedure manuals and/or contracts for private enterprises, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies. This often entailed translating documents from Spanish to English, and the recording and transcription of legal depositions. • Mortgage loans contract drafting. Studying and examining titles for lawyers that work in mortgage loans industry. Show less

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  Industrial Commission, PR

  Dec 2010 - Apr 2018

  Manager

  As Manager, is directly in charge of the Filings and Customer Service Areas, supervising 10 employees and is part of a team of over 100 employees.The scope of responsibilities cover the following: • Manage the client services, and filing functions of the organization; handling close to 100,000 documents per year. • Implement an organization-wide upgrade of the client files by converting a local digital system to a web based digital system that is searchable and retrievable by all its clients.• Design and implement performance metrics from digital system to measure client satisfaction and internal efficiency in the processing of new cases and documents. The performance metrics helped lower the time in the managing of new cases by 25%.• Create, update and maintain the internal compliance manuals, so they conform to local and federal regulations. Show less

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  Merlin Law Group, P.A.

  Mar 2018 - Feb 2023

  Relationship Manager

  • Planning, managing, and supervising daily activities of the law firm. • Responsible of compliance with regulations, procedures, standards and controls established.• Human resources liaison with Tampa Office.