Luca Di Mascio BSc

Born sometime during the 1970's in Bradford, England. My childhood was typical. Hot summers in Valvori high in the Apennine mountains of Italy and of school in Bradford. This would be a situation that was to continue long past my school days.

By the age of fifteen I had my current group of friends in Italy. We have remained an inseparable entity whenever in Italy. We generally admit to the fact that we would hate each other had we have had the misfortune to live near each other in England.

In 1991 I started working as an Ophthalmic Photographer based at Airedale General Hospital. I have a retinal screening clinic where I work with diabetics both at the hospital and at health centers in the community. I am still working in this position as of summer 2004.

In 1998 I began a major change by going back into education After contacting several universities I decided to do an access course first. The access course at Bradford College was already full so they put me in touch with Park Lane College in Leeds where I was accepted and started the Mature Access Course covering Computing and Business Studies. At the end of this course of study I finally decided to further my education by studying for an IT degree and after contacting Leeds Metropolitan University, Huddersfield University and the University of Bradford. After spending hours exploring the Leeds Met campus where all my friends from college were going I ended up applying to the University of Bradford mainly because the course they offered was Computer Science and the Leeds Met course was "only" Computing. So I gradually lost touch with all my Park Lane friends but encountered many new friends at Bradford.

During July 2003 I was awarded an Honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Bradford, which was nice.

Due to a bizzare turn of events, in July 2004 I will be awarded an Honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Bradford, which will be nice... again!