Matthew Vieke
From my partners:
"Thanks for your quick support on this one, customer really appreciated it!" -AH (Customer quality engineer)
Professional Summary
As a Senior Manager with over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor, automotive, and industrial sectors, I thrive at the intersection of technical expertise and effective leadership. My passion lies in continuous improvement, quality systems, and failure analysis, where I have consistently empowered high-performance teams to achieve exceptional results for our customers and partners.
I believe in the power of "Diligence and Simplicity" as a guiding principle—approaching challenges with a meticulous mindset while striving for streamlined solutions. Whether as an individual contributor or in a leadership role, I focus on building collaborative environments through mentoring and process optimization.
I am now seeking new opportunities to further enhance my technical and leadership skills while delivering high-quality results that delight my customers.
Career Highlights
- Received the Customer Quality Support Excellence Award for using emerging artificial intelligence tools to reduce customer complaints by 20%; saving $75k per quarter.
- Managed project team to standardize sample preparation, electrical verification and AI supported analysis at laboratories in 4 countries; Realizing $8.8M cost avoidance.
- Coordinated site audits, customer surveys, product qualification and safe launch to secure customer component approval for $100M in new business (a division record at that time).
- Successfully launched and managed 5S programs across companies in various fields from metal-stamping to injection-molding to analytical laboratories.
- 5x recipient of “On the Spot” awards to recognize extraordinary achievement in problem-solving and crisis team support.
- 3x recipient of “Your Idea Pays” award for implementing cost-saving improvements in equipment maintenance, industrial automation and artificial intelligence implementations.
Employment History
Infineon Technologies
Livonia, MI | 2006 to present
| Position |
Responsibilities |
| Sr. Manager Failure Analysis (current) |
- Drive & contribute to global projects
- Deploy corporate initiatives
|
| Sr. Staff Failure Analysis Engineer |
- Perform semiconductor failure analysis
- Evaluation, release & maintain new lab equipment
|
| Customer Quality Manager |
- Enable new business by ensuring customer quality expectations are fulfilled
|
| Sr. Staff Failure Analysis Engineer |
- Customer liaison for all quality issues
- Prepare material compliance certs (IMDS, RoHS, REACH)
|
Technology Edge Inc
Kokomo, IN | 2003 to 2006
| Position |
Responsibilities |
| Engineer (at large) |
- Corporate training on 5S and FMEA
- Software development
- Equipment sales & support
|
Education & Training
| Organization |
Location |
Details |
| Nonnast & Kollegen |
Leominster, MA |
Leadership Basics |
| ESD Forum |
Temecula, CA |
Certified ESD Technician |
| Fred Pryor |
Lansing, MI |
Supervising Teams |
| SixSigma.us |
Online |
Six sigma yellow belt |
| AMA |
Livonia, MI |
Situational Leadership |
| AIAG |
Detroit, MI |
REACH Reporting |
| QAI |
Indianapolis, IN |
ISO/TS16949 Internal Quality Auditor |
| TetraTech |
Ann Arbor, MI |
IMDS Standard Training |
| Purdue University |
Kokomo, IN |
BS. Electrical Engineering Technology |
Skill Set
Seven Habits. Project Management. Situational Leadership. Getting Things Done (GTD). Problem Solving. Risk Assessment. Quality management. Excel Data analysis. Document control. Semiconductor analysis (microscopy, SEM, SAM/SAT, electrical verification). 5S. Lean. Auditing. Environmental compliance (IMDS/RoHS/REACH). Calibration. Document Control. ESD Verification. Specification review. Computer programming.