your resume mentions schools and certifications/licenses
just as a european CV would
In America, a CV is a CURRICULUM VITAE, which is submitted to schools when applying to a school, for a job, or research position, and/or research grants, which Ford would have had to have done many times over. And it is in common usage, right here in the good old US of A; fool.
You may have considered yourself to be up on just WHAT I was referring to; however, you have now consistently disproved that assumption you had about yourself.