Rose Mary Farenden


Rose Mary Farenden is a Northern Irish mechanical engineer who was the project manager for the launch of the Ford Focus in 1998.

Early life

Rose Mary Farenden was born on the 22nd of May 1964 in Belfast in Northern Ireland, where she attended an all-girls school. She gained a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Queen's University Belfast in 1985. At QUB she was the only female studying Mechanical Engineering.

Career

Farenden was first employed at BP in 1985 as her first job. Three years later, after her departure from BP, she joined the Ford Motor Company in which she was employed as a CAD-CAM specialist. She was deployed at the Dunton Technical Centre in Essex. She also worked as a powertrain engineer at Dunton, then in 1999, she transferred to the United States to work for Ford. She became a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in May 1995.. Later on, in 2002, she moved to Boeing, then to Rolls Royce. As of present, she works as a director of Invest Northern Ireland and Catalyst Inc.