Chris Vella
🚀 Welcome to my website!
📜 Introduction
Hello! I am a computer engineer entering the STEM field with four years of experience in robotics and two years of software experience in data structures, algorithms, and web design. For the next two summers, I hope to gain more experience through engineering internships. Then after I graduate, I plan to enter a career focusing on either computer hardware or software and hopefully be able to innovate, design, and make them more efficient.
👩🏽🚀 Projects
Website
I created a website from scratch using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The (hopefully) beautiful page you are currently looking at. I spent most of my time for this project teaching myself these languages from online tutorials and documentation, then optimizing the code to make sure it looked good while also not requiring too much processing power
Video Game
I am currently working on making a game in unity. However, I am still in the prototype phase right now where I am learning the basics of Unity and C#, but I plan to have some basic mechanics for the game done over the winter.
🎓 Education
Lehigh University
I am in my second year of college and working towards a
bachelors in computer engineering. My current GPA is 3.78
and I have multiple courses to help towards my major such as:
Applied Engineering Comp. Methods, Programming and Data
Structures, Calc. III, Linear Methods, Physics II, Intro. to
Electrical Engineering, Intro. to Computer Engineering, and
Discrete Mathematics
Don Bosco Prep
I graduated from here with the highest distinction and from within the National, Math, and English honor societies. I was also awarded a scholarship for excelling scholastically.
✍ Related Experiences
Teaching Assistant
I assissted in teaching students how to use python and raspberry pi's to solve engineering problems. This experience was very beneficial for me because I am now able to better help others and I gained more leadership experience.
Formula SAE - Electrical Member and EV Lead
I am the sole designer of the data acquisition harness for our car, which was designed using Solidworks. I also assisted in writing the code to interpret the data from sensors on the daq harness and then display those readings in an easy-to-read manner using Arduino.
I am the lead of our team’s transition from IC to EV. This transition is currently on track to be complete in two years to allow time for us to finish researching components and learn how to assemble them.
First Robotics - Electrical Team Lead
I worked with a team to construct two robots from scratch each year while in high school. We then competed in FIRST competitions to show ingenuity and efficiency in completing different tasks using the robots we constructed. I also led the electrical sub-team during my senior year.
Space Initiative - Robotics Arm Lead
This is the first year of this club where we build a rover to compete in the University Space Challenge and I became one of the two robotic arm team leads and also lead designer. As a team lead, I ensure that major designs are finished on time and assist the team members however I can. I am currently designing the base of the arm that includes a mechanism to turn the arm as well as the first major joint.
Underwater Robotics - Member/Researcher
I recently joined this club where we build an unerwater drone to compete in a competition where it needs to autonomously complete multiple different tasks. However, I will also be joining the research group for this project in the coming semester.
Superdry
I worked at a retail store over the past summer. I gained many valuable experiences and skills from this job, such as my abilities to work well with others, adapt to new situations quickly, and learning how to deal wwith difficult people.
🕺 Activities
Eta Kappa Nu
This club is Lehigh's chapter of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society. Through this orginization, I attend many events to help develop skills to prepare me to enter industry after graduation.
Lehigh Coders Community
I am given the ability to grow my technical knowledge through workshops and development events coordinated through this club.
Vacation Bible School Leader
For six years, I helped to take care of kids over the summer, while also learning how to delegate work to other volunteers to ensure that work was done well and efficiently.
⭐ Achievements
- Eta Kappa Nu (ECE Honor Society) Membership
- Lehigh University Dean's List
- LakeLand Bank Scholarship
🙌 Skills
Technical Skills:
Java, C++, C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Arduino, Matlab, Raspberry Pi, SolidWorks, Microsoft Office
Soft Skills:
Problem-solving, Willingness to learn, Teamwork, Leadership experience, Detail oriented
Thank you for your time!