Luke is a chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 15 years experience, who is currently engineering lead of the rolling stock team for the Suburban Rail Loop project, as part of the of the AJM Joint Venture, who is the Technical Advisor. Luke also provided rolling stock advice to the Melbourne Airport Rail project, and was project manager and mechanical engineer for rolling stock projects for the V/Line Classic Fleet, maintained by Alstom.
Luke participated in the Metropolitan rail number 4 evaluation process as a member of the rolling stock sub panel evaluation team, focusing on maintenance costs. Luke completed a 2.5 year assignment at the Hyundai-Rotem (HR) Rolling Stock Manufacturing Plant in Changwon, South Korea and a previous 2 year assignment in Wellington where he was working on behalf of Greater Wellington Regional Council (GW) to successfully complete commissioning of the first order and deliver the second order of Matangi EMU vehicles to Wellington, New Zealand.