Chris Johnson is the lead programmer on VATT and Mountain Operations. Chris was raised in Wilmington, Delaware and began his bachelors in the fall of 1993 at California University of Pennsylvania. While studying, Chris had had a summer job on the assembly floor of a TV transmitter factory, and spent a yearlong internship in a small company that manufactured digital measuring instruments. Chris graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1998 and worked briefly in the finan- cial transaction processing industry be- fore taking an embedded programming job in the Defense industry in the spring of 1999. In 2002 Chris came to Steward Observatory. Since coming to Steward, Chris has spent most of his time work- ing on embedded systems and motion control, and has been been part of many projects including the LBT. Starting in 2005, Chris became a member of the Mountain Operations team, and in 2006 also became member of the VATT team. Since 2012, Chris has also been leader of the IT group at Steward Observatory.