==Career==Whitmarsh graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic (now University of Portsmouth) with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980, and started work at British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) as a structural analysis engineer at its Hamble-le-Rice facility.
Закончил университет в 1980 по специальности Машиностроение, и начал работать в British Aerospace (сейчас BAE Systems) в качестве инженера.