About Me

My name is Chris Savage, I was born in August 1983 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. When I was 4, my family moved to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, where the rest of my childhood was spent.

I first got into computing when my parents got us an Amstrad MegaPC for Christmas. I discovered QBasic and started learning to program somewhere around the age of 10. Five years passed, and I got my hands on a copy of Borland Delphi 2 from a Computer Shopper cover disc, and within weeks I was developing applications for Windows 95.

When I left school, I went straight to college to study for a BTEC National Diploma in Computer Science. This didn't work out too well, and I continued on my self-taught path, learning ASP.NET in order to develop a web site for my software. This eventually led to setting up a Linux server, and I fell down the open-source rabbit hole.

The next few years were spent moving around the country, I lived in Barnsley, Bingley, Bradford and now reside in Hull.

While living in Bradford, I tried to get back into education by attending the University of Bradford, again, this didn't work out too well. I was essentially forced into studying a foundation year before being allowed onto a degree course, only to find the first year of the degree course was identical to the foundation year. The level of teaching and quality of the course content left something to be desired, and I left University to help with the family business.

I am now back on the self-taught route, with some guidance from The Home Learning College to study for a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) certification.

My dream has, and still is to work in computing, preferably in software development, but system and network administration is also a area I would like to move into.

Once I have achieved the SCJP certification, I plan to move back to the south of the country to find employment, and use the extra cash to increase my arsenal of industry certifications by becoming a Sun Certified Java Developer (SCJD), and eventually a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA).

Bootnote: Credit where it's due, there was one lecturer at Bradford University who was a breathe of fresh air, and led to me developing Sokoban for the Gameboy Advance. So Anton, thanks for being the only cheery, fun lecturer we had. :-)