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
Additional experience
Sr Director of Oxidation Products
Applied Materials
December 2015 – December 2023
Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- BS, UCLA
