Luke M Rickert
Holmenkollveien 61C
0784 Oslo Norway
+47 45231387
I am a mechanical engineer with over 20 years’ experience, including working for Boeing Commercial Airplanes on the 787 program, Aker Solutions subsea, and operating my own consulting company. I have a bachelor's degree in physics, a masters degree in mechanical engineering, and hands-on expertise from my prototyping machine shop. In short, I am a theoretically grounded, technically skilled, and practically capable engineer with broad experience.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Roest Coffee Senior Mechanical Engineer
November 2021 – current Oslo, Norway
- Designing, building, and testing advanced coffee roasting machines.
- Running airflow, thermal, stress and other calculations, making measurements and optimizing designs.
- Working with people in all areas of the production and developed process, software, hardware, assembly, marketing and sales.
- Selecting and coordinating with suppliers and manufacturers of sheet metal and machined parts, electronics hardware, sensors, motion control components.
Elisenberg Engineering Consulting Engineer
December 2015 – current Oslo, Norway
- Founded and operated a consulting and specialized tool company with clients and customers in 10 countries.
- Designed and built successful 3D printer prototypes constrained by schedule, budget, and initial architecture.
- Developed and constructed a novel servo motor dynamometer testbed, leading to valuable insights into servo motor electromechanics and control systems.
- Conducted detailed thermal and structural FEA and instrumented tests of 3D printer components, gaining an understanding unique in the industry.
- Established and operated a French subsidiary company to produce precision tools within the EU.
Aker Solutions Senior Engineer, Structural Analysis
January 2013 – December 2015 Oslo, Norway
- Created highly complex non-linear models in Abaqus FEM to support the development and testing program for a new workover riser connector.
- Worked closely with customer documents and DNV GL standards to ensure that testing and analysis would meet requirements.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Engineer, Structural Analysis
2007 – 2013 Everett, WA, USA
- Analyzed composite and metallic structures.
- Conducted test programs, designed test fixtures, and developed allowables.
- Developed test correlated explicit FEA models.
- Audited and conducted analysis of damage and repairs.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Mechanical Design Engineer
2004 – 2007 Everett, WA, USA
- Designed aircraft structure for section 45 of the Boeing 787.
- Wrote specification documents, created and released parts.
- Collaborated with global suppliers and partners.
Audio Engineering Development Engineer
2002 – 2004 Seattle, WA, USA
- Founded a small loudspeaker company, designed and built audio speakers.
- Performed acoustical measurement, modeling, and product development.
Oregon State University Graduate Research Assistant
1999 – 2002 Corvallis, OR, USA
- Designed, built, and tested vibration instrumentation for industrial router spindles.
- Performed vibration and balancing research.
EDUCATION
Oregon State University Master of Science: Mechanical Engineering
1999-2002 Corvallis, OR USA
Whitman College Bachelor of Arts: Physics
1995-1999 Walla Walla, WA USA
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Finite Element Analysis: ABAQUS, Calculix, Salome, Code-Aster, PATRAN
- Computer-Aided Design: Solidworks, CATIA V5, Inventor, SolidEdge
- Other software: Mathcad, Matlab, Python, Excel, LATEX, SAP, and ENOVIA
- Technical documentation and the ability to synthesize and process complex
information, requirements, and results for analysis and testing/certification
- Cooperation, and communication in international working environments
- Physical prototyping with 3D printers and machine tools; I own and operate a precision machine workshop
LANGUAGES
- English Native speaker
- Norwegian Intermediate
- German Intermediate