CURRICULUM VITAE of Mr. Riaan Britz
*** ******** ********, ********, *******, KZN South Coast
Mobile: 082-***-****, E-mail: **********@******.*** PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth 23 February 1977
ID No: 770-***-**** 084
Marital Status Married
Dependents Wife & 4 Children
Driver’s license Code EB/08
Nationality South African
Languages English; Afrikaans
Health Excellent; non-smoker
WORK EXPERIENCE
Date: 2018/09-Current
Firm: Self Employed
Duties: I am freelancing with Multiple endeavours: Food Safety System Certification (FSSC/ISO 22000) Development, document control & Internal Auditing, Writing Procedures, Policies, SOP’s; Quality Management System (ISO 9000) Development, document control & Internal Auditing, Writing Procedures, Policies, SOP’s. Digital Publication (DTP) work, Magazine Layout, Customization and creating of letterheads, designing of digital Business cards and Adverts for Social Media platforms, Creating digital survey forms; Chess Coaching and organizing tournaments
Photography: Feature shoots & Commissioned work.
References: ISO Systems Development & Documentation: Peet Britz – 082-***-**** Magazine Layout: Willie Stieger – 082-***-****; Wim Smith – 082-***-**** Digital documents & Surveys: Mande-Meria Breedt – 084-***-**** Date: 2017/10/10 – 2018/08/31
Firm: Brits Bag Manufactures
Position held: SHERQ Manager
Duties: System development – ISO 22001-4:2018 and project for change over from ISO 9001:2008 to ISO 9001:2015
Date: 2014/11/01 – 2017/09/31
Firm: Basically, Self-employed with a Tentmakers Mission Position held: Part time minister, Part time chess coach. Duties: All duties of a Minister in fulltime ministry Date: 2006/11/01 – 2009/12/31
Firm: Zululand Observer (Partially owned by Caxton) Position held: Layout Artist in Production.
Duties: Layout of newspapers in Tera’s Good News 3 (GN3). Also responsible for correcting mistakes and eliminate errors for future publications. Full working knowledge of Adobe PhotoShop CS3/V10, Adobe InDesign CS3/V5 & Good News 3 (Server & Clients); Updating the newspaper’s website using Dreamweaver 8; Setup of Page Pair, Sending *.pdf’s & *.ps (postscripts) to Raster Image Processor & Film Image setter.
Photography: Shoots for Magazine, Newspaper & Features; specific: Editing of Photo’s for adverts, newsprint and magazine print – CMYK/RGB profiles Date: 2003/04 - 2006/01
Firm: EchoRidge; Caxton (Ridge Times Pty Ltd)
Position held: Production Manager; In-house IT Specialist; Reporting to Editor. Duties: Design of adverts for Newspapers. Layout of Newspaper in Good News 3
(GN3). Maintain and administrate computer Network systems & servers. Reference: Yvette Boshoff – 013-***-****
Date: 2000/12-2002/12 & 2004/03-2004/10
Actions: Time spent in the UK on Working Holiday visas. EDUCATION
Date: 25-28 September 2018
Course: ISO 19011 Internal Auditing; ISO/FSSC 22000:2005 Standard Auditing Institution: DQS Training Academy
Status: Exam Passed & Certificate Issued, 28 September 2018 Date: 3 April 2018
Course: FSSC 22000 V4.1 Food Packaging Material Workshop Institution: EnteCom
Date: 4-6 May 2016
Course: Global G.A.P. (Good Agricultural Practices) Public Capacity Building & Farm Assurer Workshop: Crops (F&V), in Centurion, South Africa Institution: Global G.A.P. c/o FoodPLUS GmbH
Status: Exam Passed & Certificate Issued, 20 May 2016 Other Qualifications:
Chess: Regional Arbiter (working on my norms)
A+ Certification obtained in November 1998; A+ Verification no. #CB4LON0970 Matriculated in 1995, at Hoërskool Hoogenhout, Bethal, Mpumalanga TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems Years of Experience
Windows 7 11.0
Windows 10 5.5
Windows 11 Since updated in February 2022
Full working knowledge of earlier Windows OS since Windows 95 Major Applications
MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) 25.0 Adobe Creative Suite (CS) & Creative Cloud (CC) 18.0 Adobe (CC) includes: InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver Good News 3.0 (Tera Digital Publishing) 19.5
Current Software used: MS Win11, MS 365 (Office), Adobe Creative Cloud 5.9 Hardware
PC’s & Notebooks, Printers and Networks 23.0
ISO Management Systems
Global GAP V5.1 3.5
ISO 9001:2015 (2008) 3.0
ISO/FSSC 22000:2019 3.0
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I am a hardworking, analytical and task orientated person. I can work under pressure to assure that deadlines are met. I am self-disciplined with sober habits and good health. I believe that I can be an asset to any company should I be given the opportunity. I am willing to relocate if required, or to work away from home, depending on the location and job opportunity or requirements.
Social Media accounts
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/riaan.britz.58/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaan-britz-910333a5/