Catherine McEnroe
Project Manager
Catherine graduated from University of Limerick (then N.I.H.E) in 1983 with a degree in Materials Engineering. She started her career in 1984, working as a Quality Technician in an anodising factory.
In 1989 Catherine moved to Carrickmacross to work with Bose Corporation in their Ireland manufacturing facility. Starting as a Quality Engineer, Catherine progressed through a number of roles with Bose: Vendor Quality Engineer, Quality Supervisor, and in 2000 became Quality Manager. In this role, she managed a team providing Quality and Test Engineering support (problem-solving, process and quality improvement and supplier quality management) to the consumer electronics assembly process.
Bose Corporation closed the Ireland facility in May 2015. Since then, Catherine roles have included working as a Field Supervisor with the Central Statistics Office; managing the Integrated Management System (ISO9001:2015, OHSaS18001:2007 and ISO14001:2015) for the Obelisk Group: and for Nova Leah, managing the project to implement information security and quality systems. This resulted in Nova Leah achieving certification to ISO27001:2013 and ISO9001:2015 in August 2019.
In 2001, Catherine completed her MBA in University of Ulster. The topic of her thesis was An Investigation into a Model for quality processing monitoring and improvement in Small to medium-sized businesses. In 2016, Catherine graduated from Griffith college with MSc in Pharmaceutical Business and Technology. For her dissertation she completed an investigation into the relevance of Normal Accident Theory for Problem Solving in Biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
Current Role
Catherine is currently a Project Manager in the RSRC working on the Medical Device Cybersecurity Transparency project in conjunction with industry partner Nova Leah. This 32-month project will design a hosted software platform to support the management of cybersecurity risk information.