Curriculum Vitae
Erik Ribsskog
Flat 3
5 Leather Lane
Liverpool
L2 2AE
Phone: 0151 236 3298
Mobile: (sensurert av johncons-blogg)
E-mail: eribsskog@gmail.com
Personal Profile:
I have a two year degree in Computing, from Oslo University College, and I'm a member
of the Norwegian Engineering-organisation NITO.
I've been working within management for ten years, where of four years as a Shop Manager
in three different Rimi food-shops in Norway. In 2001, I won a Rimi Shop Manager-competition,
'Rimi Gullårer', and I received a letter from Forbes-billionare Stein Erik Hagen, where he
congratulated me on being hardworking and having very good management-skills.
At school I had very good grades, so I was allowed to study on the best business upper
secondary school, in the neighbour-county, Gjerdes Videregående Skole, in Drammen, Norway,
in 1988/89. And I have business upper secondary school degrees in Office Work, Marketing
and Computing.
In 1996, I was hand-picked to a special elite Home Defence-unit, in Oslo, Støtte-området,
after serving my conscription service, in the infantry, and also after being in the Norwegian
mobilisation army, before it was reorganised, after the end of the cold war.
Career:
November 2008 – Today, Self-Employed, Blog-editor.
I have a Norwegian blog, http://www.johncons-mirror.blogspot.com, that I've been working on,
since I started with it, on my spare-time, in the summer of 2007.
The blog is about people's rights and fighting Government power-abuse, and much more.
March 2007 – November 2008, Self-Employed, Company-Researcher.
(Working as a freelancer, doing research on Scandinavian companies in the
packaging-industry for a database, www.packagingdatabase.com, on behalf
of Packaging Europe, Norwich).
June 2006 – December 2006, Arvato Services Ltd, Liverpool.
Multi-lingual Contact Centre Representative on Bertelsmann Arvato's
Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation-campaign.
August 2005 – June 2006, Randstad Employment Agency, Liverpool.
Multi-lingual Contact Centre Representative on Bertelsmann Arvato's
Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation-campaign.
March 2005 – July 2005, Løvås Farm, Larvik, Norway.
Forest-work on a farm owned by relatives in Larvik, Norway.
(Due to problems with getting Oslo University College to approve of the modules
I chose at the University of Sunderland. This lead to that the study finance from Norway
was delayed for more than one term, which lead to me losing focus on my studies in
Sunderland, so I went back to Norway, to work, before the end of this study-year).
June 2003 – August 2004, Rimi Langhus, Ski, Norway.
Team Leader, Food Shop, part-time.
August 2002 – January 2004, Rimi Bjørndal, Oslo, Norway.
Team Leader, Food Shop, part-time.
May 2001 – August 2002, Rimi Langhus, Ski, Norway.
Food Shop Manager, full-time.
August 2000 – May 2001, Rimi Kalbakken, Oslo, Norway.
Food Shop Manager, full-time.
October 1998 – August 2000, Rimi Nylænde, Oslo, Norway.
Food Shop Manager, full-time.
May 1996 – October 1998, Rimi Bjørndal, Oslo, Norway.
Assistant Manager, Food-shop, full-time.
January 1996 – April 1996, Chinatown-expressen, Eiksmarka, Norway.
Chinese Food Delivery in Oslo West and Bærum, part-time.
February 1995 – August 1995, Norsk Idrettshjelp, Oslo, Norway.
Telemarketing, part-time.
January 1995 – May 1996, Rimi Nylænde, Oslo, Norway.
Assistant Manager, Food Shop, full-time.
June 1994 – December 1994, Rimi Nylænde, Oslo, Norway.
Team Leader, Food Shop, full-time.
August 1993 – June 1994, Rimi Nylænde, Oslo, Norway.
Food Shop employee, full-time.
March 1993 – March 1993, Action Arcades, Lørenskog, Norway.
System Development, Accounts Programmer, part-time.
December 1992 – August 1993, Rimi Munkelia, Oslo, Norway.
Food Shop employee, part-time.
August 1992 – June 1993, Terningmoen, Elverum, Norway.
Norwegian Army, Infantry, Conscription Service.
August 1991 – December 1992, OBS Triaden, Lørenskog, Norway.
Food Shop employee, part-time.
September 1990 – August 1991, OBS Triaden, Lørenskog, Norway.
Food Shop employee, full-time.
August 1990 – September 1990, Det Norske Hageselskap, Oslo, Norway.
Office Worker for the publication Norsk Hagetidend, full-time.
Sept. 1988 – aug. 1989, CC Storkjøp, Drammen, Norway.
Food Shop employee, part-time.
Education:
September 2004 – February 2005, University of Sunderland.
Studying abroad, Computing.
(I didn't get my study-loan on time, from the Norwegian Study-loan bank, (Statens Lånekasse),
so I had to go back to Norway, before I finished the studies in Sunderland. I then worked on
my uncles farm in Larvik, Norway, doing forest work, for the last month of this study-year).
August 2002 – June 2004, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway.
'Høgskolekandidat informasjonsteknologi', a two year university-level degree in Computing.
(Received in 2009, after I got some modules from NHI approved by Oslo University College,
which I lacked, since I missed one or two exams, since I worked a lot in two Rimi shops,
as a Team-Leader, when I studied on Oslo University College).
August 1991 – June 1992, NHI, Oslo, Norway.
2nd year NHI-candidate. (Computing, University-level).
August 1989 – June 1990, NHI, Oslo, Norway.
1st year NHI-candidate. (Computing, University-level).
August 1988 – June 1989, Gjerdes VGS., Drammen, Norway.
3rd year upper secondary school. Business-school. Computing-line.
August 1987 – June 1988, Sande VGS., Sande, Norway.
2nd year upper secondary school. Business-school. Marketing-line.
August 1986 – June 1987, Sande VGS., Sande, Norway.
1st year upper secondary school. Business-school. Office-line.
Courses:
Food Hygiene, Level 2, November 2009.
Jet, Wavertree, Liverpool.
Numeracy, Level 2, February 2009.
Learn Direct, Liverpool.
ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence), January 2009.
Learn Direct, Liverpool.
Literacy, Level 2, November 2008.
Learn Direct, Liverpool.
I participated on many courses when I worked for Rimi, from 1992 to 2004:
– Practical management for shop-managers.
– Employment law for shop-managers.
– Marketing/branding for shop-managers.
– Loss reducing programme for shop-managers, (in the first shop I managed.
This programme resulted in the shop was on budget regarding loss for the
year 2000, the year the program started. The shop was Rimi Nylænde in
Oslo, year 2000. With Area-manager Per Øivind Fjellhøy being my line-
manager, who initated this program then).
– Intermediate/secondary courses for shop-managers regarding how to run (Rimi) food-shops.
– Security (How to act if the shop is being robbed etc.). (This course was more or less yearly).
– First aid course, and many more.
NT Server Core Tech, May 1998.
Global Knowledge Network, Skullerud, Oslo.
Summer-school, English, Brighton, 1988.
EF Language-courses.
Summer-school, English, Weymouth, 1986.
EF Language-courses.
Summer-school, English, Brighton 1985.
STS Language-courses.
Licences:
Norwegian Driving Licence. (The DVLA told me this was the equivalent of a full UK driving-licence).
References:
Tim Sykes, Editor, Packaging Europe, Norwich, phone: 0160 341 4444
PS.
Jeg ser at de margene er helt rare.
Jeg skal prøve å rette opp i det.
Da jeg gikk på kontor-linja, på Handel og Kontor, skoleåret 1986/87, så skrev vi dokumenter og sånn på skrivemaskin.
(Som jeg fikk karakter 6 i, forresten, både i faget maskinskriving og også i faget korrespondanse og dokumentlære).
Så sånn var det.
Men tekstbehandling, det er jeg ikke så god på, det må jeg innrømme.
Kanskje jeg skal laste ned Open Office, som har gratis tekstbehandlingsprogram?
Kanskje det er lettere med marger og sånn der?
Vi får se.
Jeg får prøve å få ordna det ihvertfall, for det så veldig dumt ut, la jeg merke til nå.
Selv om det ikke blir sånn på skjermen, eller på de tidligere versjonene av CV-en, som jeg har printa ut.
Så sånn er det.
Bare noe jeg la merke til.
(Som vel ikke var så lett å unngå, akkurat).
Mvh.
Erik Ribsskog