Chris Olsen

Division Chief Technology Officer at Applied Materials

Sunnyvale, California, United States

About Chris Olsen

Chris Olsen is Division Chief Technology Officer at Applied Materials. Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States.

I have Championed Industrial Problem Solving (Scientific and Empirical) tools by Executive promotion, Built Internal Web-courses, and Teaching key courses in person in addition to my day job 1. Multiple hypothesis problem solving as a differentiator in speed and completeness 2. Multi-variable stepwise regression as a tool for scientific discovery in datasets, where the empirical observation is seen before a scientific hypothesis is generate. 3. 8D / DMAIC Systematic Problem Solving as Critical Thinking tool 4. Team collaboration and building a culture to support healthy dialog in scientific discovery: see the book Culture Code by Daniel Coyle. 5. Undiscovered Risk analysis tools: TRIZ Decomposition, System Boundary, Pre-Mortem

Skills

  • Materials Science
  • Semiconductor Equipment
  • Semiconductor Manufacturing

Additional experience

  • Sr Director of Oxidation Products

    Applied Materials

    December 2015 – December 2023

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • BS, UCLA