Chris Olsen
Industrial Problem Solving Leader for Product Development
- Role
- Division Chief Technology Officer at Applied Materials
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Olsen
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 job1. Multiple hypothesis problem solving as a differentiator in speed and completeness2. 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 tool4. 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
Experience
Division Chief Technology Officer
May 2025 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US
IP portfolio, driving ideation of Product Development across Division as well as accelerating Development methodologies by with Advance problem solving, System Thinking and breaking the Silos
Education
UCLA
BS, Materials Engineering
1987 — 1991
University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering
1992 — 1998
Skills
- Plasma
- Thin Films
- Process Integration
- Product Development
- Physics
- Metrology
- Plasma Etch
- Cvd
- Cmos
- Semiconductor Equipment
- R&D
- Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Semiconductors
- Design of Experiments
- Plasma Physics
- Silicon
- Nanotechnology
- Materials Science
- Failure Analysis
- Semiconductor Industry
- Characterization
- Ic
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