Rose Mary Farenden

Rose Mary Stalker MIMechE (born 22 May 1964) is a Northern Irish mechanical engineer who was the project manager for the launch of the Ford Focus in 1998.

She grew up in Belfast, where she attended an all-girls school. She gained a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Queen's University Belfast (QUB) in 1985. At QUB she was the only female studying Mechanical Engineering.

She joined BP in 1985.

She moved to Ford in 1988 as a CAD-CAM specialist. She worked at the Dunton Technical Centre (Small & Medium Vehicle Centre) in Essex. She worked as a powertrain engineer at Dunton. She moved to Ford in the USA in 1999. She became a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in May 1995.

She moved to Boeing in 2002.

She moved to Rolls-Royce in 2003. She left Rolls-Royce in 2008.

She currently works for Catagen. She is a director of Invest Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Science Park.

She married and had a son around 1988, and a daughter around 1991. She lived in the south of Essex. She moved back to Northern Ireland in 2003.

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