Stephen Gustafson
Appointed Vice President, Manufacturing & Logistics at Applied Materials
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Gustafson is a manufacturing and logistics executive with 20+ years leading global operations, supplier engineering, and quality for high‑tech companies, now serving as Vice President, Manufacturing & Logistics at Applied Materials. He blends Lean/Six‑Sigma discipline with hands‑on reliability engineering experience across semiconductor and display supply chains, and has repeatedly rebuilt supplier quality programs at scale. A U.S. Navy Reserve officer who still directs a 1,000+ member surge maintenance effort for NAVSEA, he brings rare government program and procurement insight to commercial operations. Stephen also contributes to open source back-end engineering work—having implemented skeleton and animation utilities for Pixar’s widely used Universal Scene Description—illustrating a practical engineering curiosity beyond his executive remit.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Industrial Engineering, MS, Industrial Engineering at San José State University
Github Skills (11)
3d10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
animation10
usd10
web-framework9
python9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
Universal Scene Description
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the Universal Scene Description (USD) project by implementing and refining features related to the USD Skel (skeleton) schema. Their work involved adding methods to calculate joint transforms and handle blend shapes, including convenience methods for setting and getting transforms. The user also addressed bugs and improved existing functionalities within the USD Skel library, such as fixing issues in skeleton queries and animation mapping. Additionally, they updated existing utilities and added test cases to validate the new implementations.
universal-scene-descriptionscene
sgustafso/sg-emacs
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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