About John Thomas Winskas

Preface

Regards, 

Just want to introduce myself and affirm/ notify you of my interest in participating in and learning about CERT Training and Community Emergency & Disaster preparedness.

 After reaching out to a few Escambia County, Pensacola, and Florida Department of Health departmental contacts, with a training/skills list, about the availability of any potential volunteer opportunities; I was pointed in the direction of the BRACE Team, as a possible lead, to the type of opportunity that could fit my skillset & ambitions and could allow me to participate in and contribute to the community. 

With those aforementioned ambitions being the achievement of the following objectives:

Applying these skills, experience, and time toward interests in Emergency Preparedness, Nanotechnology, Biomedical Research, Failure Analysis, and Environmental Safety Best Practices to help achieve, solve, and/or contribute to the objectives, problems, and projects of a team that is able to provide a service to the community and/or society. 

Continuing to learn and educate myself and others about opportunities to help raise awareness of the importance of Emergency Preparedness and Environmental Safety in the fields of  Nanotechnology, Biomedical Research, and the everyday Community.

Raising awareness of the indigent & homeless populations and facilitating communication about how we could encourage civic participation and treatment, from and for, individuals who are struggling or have struggled with poverty, mental health, and or physical health issues.

Please see below if you want to know more.

Respectfully,

John T. Winskas

2006-Rensselaer, IN, -Fireworks Warehouse & St. Joseph's College Football Training -Rensselaer IN.

2006-Fireworks Warehouse

Box pickup: Took orders from a manager; Located boxes in fireworks warehouse; Safely climbed up piles of fireworks stacked up to maybe 5-30 feet high to retrieve boxes for orders; worked with teammates to make sure fireworks boxes reached the ground safely. Communicated to dolly handlers in the area before lowering the boxes to avoid injury to dolly handlers; retrieved lowered/ground level boxes; loaded up boxes and loaded boxes onto dollies and delivered the boxes to correct Semi-loading bay. 

Semi-loading & unloading up to 43–50-foot semi-trailers: Working with multiple teammates; As semi receiving stacker. Helped dolly handler unload boxes from dollies and stacked boxes in a temporary pile for organizing stacker. Kept piles of boxes received from dolly handlers organized while handing boxes to the organizing stacker and helping stack tightly into the semi (Tetris style). As an organizing stacker, received boxes from the semi-receiving stacker and fit fireworks boxes into 43–50-foot semi-trailers in temperatures of greater than 90 degrees (Tetris style). 

2006-St. Josephs' College Football Training

Trained at St. Josephs' College During the Summer.  Moved to Rensselaer, IN, to train with the St. Josephs' College football team after enrolling that summer; Started a weightlifting program; Weightlifting training included, Power Cleans, Bench Press, Dumbbell press. Shoulder bench press, dumbbell shoulder press, Olympic rack Squats, Olympic rack front squats, bridges, side bridges, straight leg deadlift, weighted angled bench sit-ups, reverse sit-ups with 45-pound weights. Completed agility exercises, ladder exercises, trained with wind sprints for running from one side of the field to the other side and back to the original side.  

Moved Large Rubber objects (Tractor Tire); Flipping a large donut shaped hollow piece of rubber (tractor tire) x amount of yards. Rolling a large donut shaped hollow piece of rubber (tractor tire) x amount of yards and returning rubber object to the original position.

Leather object exercises allocation, holding, and distributing. Locating, catching, throwing, and or carrying oval leather objects (under pressure in a fast-paced environment while avoiding large hazardous targeting objects moving at speeds of up to 21-22 mph, (sent to stop an individual from allocating, holding, and or distributing the leather object). Maintaining adherence to rules, guidelines, and procedures, while allocating, holding, and distributing leather objects.

Grappling & Limb swinging exercises, avoiding hazards while participating in a Grabbing, punching, kicking exercise until exhaustion, injury, and or exercise deemed to be completed by a Facility manager and or University Staff Member. Protecting sensitive parts and avoiding injury while participating in hazardous exercise.

2007-Mattoon, IL, AT&T Call Center

Trained at AT&T Call Center; Watched every episode of the Sopranos; 

After struggling with multiple boughts of debilitating depression and failing out of Parkland college (failing out of college a second time)- I Moved to my parents 2nd house in Tampa in 2008 to find work and attend community college and begin to find out who I was. 

2006-Cutco Knifes

Sales Training, reciting from call script for call sales, Reciting from script for in person sales & Pitches.

2007-Champaign, IL,-Wireless Mikes Verizon Wireless Authorized Retailer- Sales/Customer Service Agent

Worked at Wireless Mikes Verizon authorized dealer in Champaign IL Sales & Customer Service, Calling Customer list, opened up customer name software, looked customer names with new free phone availability, called customer and communicated availability of free phone. Assisting Customers with Phone Purchases Asking about customer needs and wants. Communicating Verizon's ability to meet those needs and wants. Providing the services and or access to services to meet the customers' needs and wants. Assisting Customers with understanding available Phone Plan Options. Clearly Communicating the Phone service contract to customers. Terms of service including- Start & End Date; Contract Length; Cancelation Policies; Contract/ service change policies; Pricing; Access to phone data usage information; Access to phone call history information; Access to phone internet access information; Privacy policy; Assisting Customers with Phone billing issues; Using software to assist making changes to a customer's contract and/or view or help customer view phone plan data, call history, & internet access information.

2008-Bamboo Club-Food runner

Picking up trays.1-7 oval Plates.1-5 hot Plates. Carrying tray on shoulder& carrying Stand. 1-7  oval Plates1-5 hot plates. Walking up stairs with Trays. Opening tray stand while holding tray. Placing tray on tray stand. Getting soup from soup warmer. Ladling soup into bowl. Getting rice from rice warmer. Using paddle to put rice into bowl. Opening. Cooking Rice. Moving Soups to line. Placing soups in warmer. Hydrating Mushrooms. Roasting Macadamia nuts. working with serving staff to disperse plates; Serving Hotplates, Desserts, Cookie w/ Ice Cream Bananas foster rum/ liquor Tableside Flambe.

2010-Reading & Dishwashing at Seasons 52 in Tampa, FL

After driving back down to Tampa listening to Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in The West, read guerilla warfare & motorcycle diaries, Read the Kholer Method of Guard Dog Training; and ordered a Kabar Online and got an interview for the Seasons 52 opening at Westshore mall scheduled to open Feb 15, 2010, and was hired at the interview. While, still rehabbing from the injury; Started my career at seasons 52 in December or January working full time as a dishwasher/utility; continuing to work out and/or play basketball and reading; I got a membership card at the Tampa Library; Ordered a first edition of the first English translation of The Gulag Archipelago and read The Real Thomas Jefferson; started reading Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses 1-2 times, The Crossing 2-3 Times. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in The West 1-2 times, The Outer dark, Child of God; Hemmingway-A Farewell to arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises; Camus- The Fall, The Plague, The Stranger; Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary, maybe Fear and Loathing Las Vegas? Orwell-To Catch an Elephant, 1984, Animal Farm; Huxley- A Brave New World; Czeslaw Milos-The Captive Mind; The Carbon Age; Bhagavad Gita; The Iliad, The Odyssey (maybe), Plutarch-on Sparta, Gaius Julius Ceasar-The Gaelic Wars, Ghengis Khan and The Silk Road; and The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians.

2011-Reading & Dishwashing & Prepcook - Seasons 52 in Tampa - Community College - full time

After failing out college 3 times and After 8 months as a Utility/Dishwasher and Vegetable prep-cook; I Read a news article about the IBM nano-technology-center at SUNY Albany New York and I Re-enrolled at Hillsborough Community College Dale Mabry Campus determined to study engineering and declared pre-engineering as a major. While attending college I was enrolled as a full-time student and was also working full time as a prep-cook and dishwasher during weekdays and weekends. While working full time as a Dishwasher, Prep-Cook, and Line-Cook; I Earned 11 A's and 1 B; making the Dean's list twice. 

2011-Student-HCC-Ybor

During the Summer Term 2011 I left my job to focus on studying Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics; changing my main campus to HCC YBOR, where I continued to earn 11 A's and 1 B, made the Dean's list, and Graduated with an associate in arts degree with High Honors , Earned an Academic Achievement Award in Biological Sciences and Joined the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society . During this time, I bought a USF Parking pass and spent my weekends at the USF Library and playing basketball. 

2012-NREC Cleanroom Engineer Assistant: 

As a cleanroom assistant with the NREC Cleanroom Engineer, assisted with cleaning chemical bench wiping down stained benches in die prep room. Assisted in Clean Room Maintenance; Wiped floors with clean room sticky rollers; Cleaned walls and ceilings with sticky rollers; Cleaned floors with sticky rollers.  Assisted in Teflon nozzle replacement; Tube measurement; Unscrewing nozzle cap; removing plastic tubing; replaced PTFE and/or HDPE plastic tubing. Assisted Moved equipment & tools with pallet jack. Cleaned underside of table and behind tools; Assisted/ learned about Sputter tool; Cleaned Photoresist-spin area; Assisted Photoresist spinning experiments; Cleaned photoresist spin tool; Looked for/ checked dates of photolithography chemicals for expired chemistry; Looked for crystallization around bottle opening; Cleaned/ wiped down photolithography benches; cleaned/wiped down chemical storage cooler; Cleaned areas with Cleanroom wipe; Helped with clean room experiments; kept logs for clean room experiments; Filled liquid nitrogen tanks; Assisted students with dicing saw; Assisted with cleanroom trainings; Organized tools in the work room of NREC; Organized, measured, and sorted Screws and Nails.

2012-NREC Metrology Research Scientist: 

Began to train on the Focused Ion Beam observing Metrology Research Scientist FIB Sessions and assisting the Metrology Research Scientist with Carbon Sputtering of Samples, filling up the nitrogen tank, pouring liquid nitrogen into a liquid nitrogen. Trained on thermionic electron source filament replacement. 

2012-Project Suggested from Metrology Engineer

• • Project v.1 Jacob's ladder

  • Jacobs ladder prototype 1- 2 pieces of 10'" (1/2 a cm) copper wire, oil igniter (6Kv; 100 mA power supply), a power cord, a cell phone holder and a switch. 

  • Used pliers to turn copper wire around positive and negative terminal of the oil igniter cut tip of power cord and peeled back rubber protective coating, used wire stripper to strip positive & negative wires spliced power cord wires to positive and negative wires of oil igniter plugged in device to power strip. listened for buzzing noise. unplugged from the power strip. adjusted copper wires 1 centimeter at base to 2 centimeters at top of ladder. 

  • added a switch; un-spliced power cord wires from positive and negative wires of power supply; Spliced positive and negative wires to positive & negative wires of switch; spliced positive and negative wires at other side of switch to positive and negative wires of terminal; plugged power cord into power strip hopefully with the switch in the closed position.  Flipped switch to open position, observed space between copper wires for ionized air/plasma between copper wires. Observed density differential caused by the heat of the plasma; creating an upward movement of the plasma between the copper wires until reaching the apex or top of the ladder. Then the dissolution of the plasma at the top of the device and the formation of a new plasma at the bottom of the copper wires where the copper wires are closest. 

  • Prototype v.2 Jacob's ladder 

  • Used brackets to fasten 2 plywood boards together at a 90-degree angle to protect individuals from the ionized air/plasma between the copper wires and fastened power supply to the bottom board.

  • Prototype v.3 Plexi-glass safety cover

  • Unfastened power supply from plyboard, un-spliced power cord, switch, and power supply wires;  Used a personal cell phone stand as a holder for the power supply; Used Dremel tool to saw and cut beams & boards out of cell phone stand to fit power supply into cleared out cell phone stand box; fastened oil igniter power supply to cell Phone stand box; fitted switch into back of cell phone stand horizontally. Plugged power cord in and tested device. Observed successful Ionization of air/plasma between copper wires. 

  • Prototype v.4 Worked with machine shop for final adjustments to Jacob's ladder for NREC demonstrations 

  • From an oil igniter, power cord , cell phone stand and Plexi-glass, worked with machine shop staff cell phone stand to protect users from ionized air/plasma generated from the 6000v 100mA power supply; staff assisted with drilling holes for fastening screws and added top for extra safety to cut spacings for cell phone holder and cutting spacings to allow for the wood box to flex allowing plexiglass to fit securely into cell phone stand box. 

  • project #3 - power supply

Side note: That summer I met a person wearing a Monks clothing outside the NREC and he offered me a copy of the Bhagavad Gita mentioning the book was given as a gift yet that I could choose to give him something in return. I checked my wallet pulled out all the money I had and gave it to him, and I think he left with a dollar.

After 5 months of volunteering at the NREC facility Training and Earning Multiple Certificates my work continued as a volunteer undergraduate research assistant helping with a prototype project for the IBIS Research Lab,

2012-17-USF-Undergraduate Research Assistant-IBIS

Metrology

SEM Imaging, Experiment Documentation, Experimental Design, Data Organization, Data Labeling hierarchies

Nano-scale Endoscope Prototype #1 & #2 & Photonic crystal Design & Experiment:

Prototype Research: Design, worked with metrology research Scientist, FIB milling calculations, FIB Milling with and without Metrology research Scientist; Worked with metrology Research Scientist to calculate, and mill, silicon carbide photonic crystal device; Si-O2 nano wire experiments, Fabrication, Physical vapor deposition FIB milling, HF Etch, Experimental Design. 

Optical Fiber Coupling Device

Optical fiber coupling device prototype 1 design 1: Prototype design-prefabrication, Microscope Slide measurements, Dicing saw width, Optical Fiber width, Coupler Trench Spacing, Dicing saw height.

Optical fiber coupling device prototype 1 fabrication: Dicing saw leveling techniques, depth calculations, depth to trench width calculations

Optical fiber coupling device prototype 1 metrology: Optical microscope imaging, measurements, Dicing saw trench measurements, measurements, optical fiber inside trench imaging, Optical microscope fiber face imaging before placing in coupling device. Optical microscope fiber face imaging after placing in coupling device.

Optical Fiber coupling Device prototype 1 Experimentation: Coupled light into two cleaved optical fiber cores using microscope slide coupling device prototype positioned horizontally. Coupled light into two cleaved optical fiber cores using microscope slide coupling device prototype positioned vertically. One optical fiber coupled to laser 2nd optical fiber placed inside coupling device. Placed 4 fibers in the optical fiber coupling device prototype for coupling.

Optical fiber coupling device design

Optical Fiber Face sputtering experiments, E-beam Vaporization, FIB milling, faces 1-4, Placed in optical fiber coupling device with sputtered faces,***Need to confirm sputter or e-beam vaporization for optical fiber film coating***, Milled nanoscale holes in sputter optical fiber faces, SEM Imaging of optical fiber faces, placed milled optical fibers in the optical fiber coupling device, checked milled/sputtered optical fiber surfaces for damage after placing in optical fiber coupling device trenches 1-4.

Optical Fiber cleaving Experimental design.

Optical Fiber face cleaving angle experiments. microscope imaging, Optical Profilometry, SEM Imaging, Experiments documentation.

USF-IBIS Research Lab Optical Fiber Fusion Splicer Equipment Purchase.

Due to the difficulty of the Optical Fiber coupling process and the amount of training that it would require to complete to train others and due to the cleave angle issue/with the optical fiber cleaver; interest in continuing the research/ and adding fusion splicing to the capabilities of the lab to possibly experiment with optical fiber pulling and to increase the efficiency of the nanoscale endoscope project and research required to complete prototypes.

Pre-purchase: Optical Fiber Cleaver & Fusion Splicer, technology, Pricing, and manufacturer research and documentation. Presented technology presentation to IBIS lab Principal Investigator during lab meeting and submitted copy for review. 

Negotiation: Optical Fiber Cleaver & Fusion splicer manufacturer & retailer emailing including initial contact and initial price quote; and purchase contract discount negotiation. 

Purchasing: Cleared Final Optical Fiber Cleaver & Fusion splicer Purchase contract with Principal Investigator. 

Receiving & Unpacking:  Tracked and picked-up Fusion Splicer and Cleaver from Engineering Faculty Office- fusion splicer & cleaver unpacking, 

Initial set-up:  Read cleaving & splicing directions; cleaving/splicing practice; including initial Cleaving angle analysis and experiments new vs. old cleaver comparison. Completed Fiber-to-Fiber splicing.

Endoscope Device Experimentation: Created custom process for fiber splicing to a 4 cm optical fiber without damaging the fiber bare Silicon fiber face. 

Nanoscale Endoscope prototype 2 design- Zinc-Oxide nanowire growth

Nanoscale Endoscope prototype 3 design- 

Nanoscale Endoscope prototype 4 design- 

Researched: Optical Fiber materials publication Research; Optical Fiber etching research. Wet bench 

Safety Training: Semiconductor Grade HF handling Procedures; Semiconductor Grade HF waste Procedures; Clean Room Safety Training; OSHA Lab Safety Training; Wet Bench Safety Training, procedures, and certification. 

HF-Pre-Experiment planning & Design:  Planned out HF Etch Experiments; Initial read peer-reviewed research publications for experiment planning; HF Etch rate estimates derived from peer-reviewed Journal publications; Created/wrote Si-02 etching pre-experiment design & documentation; Si-02 etch rate calculations; vapor etching and fluid etching research/ read peer-reviewed articles on vapor etch and fluid HF etching on multiple strategies;  Initial experimental set-up. Designed Initial experiment parameters; time; depth of fiber; length of fiber; proper equipment; safety procedures for experiment; scheduling lab time; reserving wet bench after calculating projected time of experiment; checking with cleanroom engineer notifying cleanroom engineer of a potential hazard in the cleanroom and the time of experiment and expected end-time of experiment. 

HF-Experiment-Execution: Obtained and Wore proper PPE and correct equipment for experiments. 

Usage of HF; Poured HF for experiments; maintained a safe environment cleaned up drops of HF with Clean Room rags; Disposed of HF in correct waste container; Checked Waste container level before disposal of Si-o2 experimental waste; Hf etch-Experiment set up material & equipment for etching; Tracking/monitoring HF si-o2 etching experiment; keeping a timer with correct Etch time according to pre-experiment calculations derived from peer-reviewed journal papers;

HF-Experiment-Metrology: Confirmation of etch-rate calculations & setting up initial etch-rate. Confirmation of etch rate using microscope; SEM image thickness measurements and etch rate confirmation; Taper angle measurements; Taper length measurements; Etch rate calculations; Experimental iterations; experimental redesign; SEM Nanoscale device confirmation. 

Nanoscale-Endoscope Optics experiments: With the help of a lab-mate and an IBIS Microsoft visual studio micromanipulator software program designed/ developed by another lab-mate/peer- We created a 3d dimensional map of the physical optical profile of maybe multiple tapered fibers. Later confirmed from simulations completed by lab-mate.

Breast Cancer Confocal Microscopy Experiments: Breast Cancer cell confocal microscopy experiments; Worked with Moffit cancer center researchers and IBIS Researchers; Assisted Confocal microscope imaging experiment; Manual manipulation and alignment of micromanipulator holding optical fiber to image fiber tip at maybe 25x,50x and 100 x? ; Manual manipulation of optical fibers; holding fiber under microscope the fingers and imaging at 25x - maybe (50x and 100x) magnification and Fluorescence imaging at 532 and maybe 330nm?; breaking the optical fiber tip and creating in-situ adjustment to the experiment; Broken fiber; as there may have been an Optical trapping effects from the laser or localized heating effect both of which could and should have required further investigation to resolve. 

Fluorescence Imaging: Designed & Executed Experiments; Communicated experimental needs to Bio-Medical Engineering Lab member to assist with: Cell staining; Cell fermentation, and bio-medical experiment parameters and advice such as: Knowledge of robustness of cells, maintaining consistency of cultures, possible dye effects; cell attributes and control of/manipulation of cell attributes. 

Thermo-plasmonic device prototype:

Initial Plasmonics research

Sputtered film absorption research: Au film adherence research: Au Sputtered film absorption spectrum research, experimentation. Cr sputtered film absorption Spectrum Research & Experimentation, Au cr sputtered film absorption spectrum research, experiments. Experimental sputtered film spectrum absorption experimental results vs. simulation.

Physical vapor deposition film initial experimentation and design. E-beam vapor film deposition, Sputter film deposition, Horizontal sputter film, Optical profilometry, SEM, Vertical sputter film, Optical profilometry.

Super Resolution Microscopy:

Super Resolution Microscopy Research. CCD Camera sensor Technology Research; Super Resolution microscopy Vendor Demonstration at the Moffit Cancer Center; IBIS-lab vendor demonstration. Compared & contrasted vendor technology w/ CCD sensor microscope add-on technology.

Infrared Camera Experiments:

Infrared Camera: infrared Camera technology research and experiments including reading the manual; sensor sensitivity testing; Spatial resolution sensitivity experiments, Thermal resolution sensitivity experiments.

The following summer I was hired as an engineering intern at Draper Laboratory where I continued to utilize the facilities, experience, social capital and training obtained while volunteering at the NREC. My work as an undergraduate research assistant and engineering intern continued for the next few semesters as I continued to work with and gain experience with the tools at the NREC. 

During the time span listed above I received the following training & certifications from the Nanotechnology Research & Education Center. 

2018-Albany, NY, -Waiting for IBM-Reptile Training-Savannah Monitor- Hobby

 Tens to hundreds of hours of training time spent with the animal laying with each other; observing each other; (Lizards watch you as much as you watch them).

Bought a Savannah Monitor in 2018;(AKA- Achilles) to deal with depression stemming from stress while waiting for IBM paperwork to Finalize. (May have been worried about being stranded in Albany, NY.; Maybe read a book about raising Savanah Monitors). 

Domesticated Achilles; Trained Achilles to eat pieces of meat or insects from the palm of my hand. Could hold meat between my fingers and feed the lizard and it would gently grab the meat while being aware of my fingers making sure not to hurt me. Some mice may have been injured when Achilles was hungry. Fed super worms and 99% lean turkey; reptile multivitamin powder, and raw eggs with eggshells crushed into meat. 

Showered with Achilles clinging to my head and shoulders or laying on my thigh and lap and (she?) never bit me while in the shower.

Achilles Liked to lay on the Subwoofer while listening to Music that rumbled the walls.

2019-2020-Bradenton & Sarasota, FL,-Motorworks Brewing- Barback, Maintenance, Busser

Barback 

Radio communication: Listening and responding to manager radio communications. Listening for food truck orders and retrieving food truck orders for bartenders. Communicating storage access & inventory needs to manager if bartender busy or unavailable.

Pre-shift checks; Stocked bar Cooler with 6 packs according to inventory sheet or bartenders' advice. Poured Beer: IPA’s; Stouts; Pilsners. Poured soft drinks from the dispenser. Loading /unloading soft-drink dispensers. Checking keg levels in tap cooler; ask bartenders advice on what back-up kegs to keep in the keg cooler. Take rough keg/beer cooler inventory: Checking bar-line glass shelves & wineglass& champagne glass form empty spots and getting permission from management and/or lead bartender to restock pint glasses/tumblers and/or in glasses. Uncover liquor, Check with bartender about pre-shift liquor well inventory. Uncap the liquor. Assist bartender with stocking liquor/ napkins, coasters, straws, etc.; Retrieved rubber bar mats from back of house washing area. Completed pre-shift keg changes. Take out cardboard bins/trash/waste bins. Checked Ice machine ICE level.

During Shift:

Well stocking: Kept bar ice well Stocked with Ice; kept track of liquor levels for bartenders; changed out liquor bottles from backup well to main well hopefully before bartender had to say anything.  

Tapping Kegs; Checking for proper; Checking beer tap lines for air. Checking Bartender Taps for pour quality.

Replacing Kegs from Walk-in Cooler; Checked keg contents; Lifted and carrying quarter/sixth kegs to the tap cooler.

Communicating with Bartenders; Keeping bartenders updated on keg inventory; Placing tickets at correct beer taps or correct area. Notifying bartender of drink/shot orders; listening for bartender commands; Assisted bartender in beer pouring; and delivering beer to correct customer.

Communication with servers: Received tickets from serving staff; Poured beer for server orders; placed drink order tickets on trays; notifying servers when order filled.

Stocking bar area: While staying out of the bartender's way; Stocking 10–20-pint glasses at a time; Hanging wine glasses without damaging glasses; Loading/unloading the glass washer; Picking up broken glass/cleaning broken glasses.

Stocking serving station/area: Keeping the server area stocked with napkins/ coasters/ utensils.

Organizing dirty buss bin/waste area: Organized glasses in Bussing Bins, brought in by bussers/servers for Glass washing. Transferred trash from buss bins to waste/trash bins, Stacking/ organizing glasses in bins. Checking/Changing waste/trash bins for bartenders and servers (Before, During, and after shift). Maintain buss bin/waste/trash area and server station clean and maintain awareness of sharp objects/ potentially dangerous debris. Maintain bar, Busbin/trash/waste area and server station floors clean, maintaining awareness of trash/ spills, and debris, sweeping up any debris and or mopping up spills from bar/server area.

Post Shift

Closed: Followed procedures/orders defined by bartenders. Wiped down bar. Washed stopped Cleaned Taps/handles/inside taps with cleaning solution. Capped/covered liquor bottles. Picked up rubber mats from floor and brought mats to back of house washing area to spray down with hose. Mopped bar area with bleach & cleaning solution; Collected and changed trash bags from trash bins from bar area/ server trash area; and outdoor trash bins. Placing bags in trash bag storage bin. Took out trash storage bins to dumpster; Back-of-house Brewing area. Making sure back door is locked while closing, before and after taking out the trash. Closing & locking lock back of house doors; closing & locking gate pad locks. 

Bussing

Radio communication: Listening and responding to manager radio communications. Listening for food truck orders and retrieving food truck orders for bartenders. Communicating storage access & inventory needs to manager if bartender busy or unavailable.

Pre-shift

Hygiene and Appearance: Maintaining appearance & Hygiene; Showering/changing between maintenance and busser shift if necessary; De-odorizing; using after shave to make customers comfortable. Cleaning mouth with mouthwash before/during/ and after shifts; and Listerine strips during shift.

Pre and During Shift

Indoor and Outdoor Trash Bins areas. Keeping server/buss bin area clear of debris; Changing server/buss bin area trash/waste bins. Wiping server trays with cleaning fluid; & wiping down server/buss bin area; Changing outdoor trash/waste bins. Checking with barback if they want any help with bar trash. Moving trash to waste storage bin. Taking trash out from waste storage bin to dumpster. Checking trash storage been before, during, and after shift. 

Cleaning and Wiping tables/ Buss bins Indoor & Outdoor. Cleaning, Wiping, and Picking up trash from tables. Carrying a clean towel to wipe tables. Clearing Empty or abandoned tables of wineglasses, pint-glasses, tumblers. Placing glasses in buss bins stacking/ organizing glasses as to prevent the glasses from breaking while carrying the bus tub,  

Communicating with Customers. Observing customer tables for trash & empty glasses. Being aware of customers needing busser or server attention watching body language for waving gestures. Checking with customers gaining permission from customers before taking glasses and forwarding customer requests to serving staff, and or management if necessary. Being polite when reaching/removing glasses.

Communicating with Servers: Listening to requests from servers. 

Moving Furniture: Assisting serving staff and Maintenace in moving chairs and tables before and after events or for large parties/ groups.  Pushing in empty chairs to maintain a path for serving staff. 

Cleaning Floors: Sweeping and mopping floors; using caution signs to marking spills and slippery areas with caution signs.

Cleaning Bathrooms:  If bathroom cleaning requested from staff; Asking female workers to check if female bathroom is empty; Checked/Changed bathroom waste/trash bins; Checked soap and soap levels in bathrooms. 

Outside carpet & Patio: sweeping & picking up trash from outdoor carpeted area and patio.

Closing: -

**see During shift: Indoor and Outdoor Trash bins areas and Cleaning and wiping tables, pushing chairs into tables before leaving, wiping tables before leaving.

Maintenance Assistant

Radio communication: Listening and responding to manager radio communications. Listening for food truck orders and retrieving food truck orders for bartenders. Communicating storage access & inventory needs to manager if bartender busy or unavailable.

Air conditioner: Vacuumed

Bathroom Maintenance: cleaning, wiping toilets, plunging toilets, mopping bathroom floors, cleaning up bathroom messes, Adding soap to dispensers.

Gas powered Leaf Blower: Cleared event area, patio, front and back parking lots, back/side service lots, of leaves.

Building maintenance: Assisted Maintenance Staff with building Maintenace; improvement; yardwork; cleaning; decorating; storage loading & unloading; & other general maintenance projects as requested.

Safety Equipment: Located and allocated necessary safety equipment including goggles; gloves; area caution markers; facemasks etc.

Hand tools: Used hand tools for projects. Hammering nails, Sawing, Screwing nails, buckets, spackles, caulking.

Electric Tools: Bandsaw, Drill, 

Brewery/ back of house cleaning: Swept leaves from inside the brewery to side service lot; then blowing leaves out of side service lot. Mopped Ice machine hallway and trash bin storage area with bleach.

Maintenance Shed; Stored tools; Gas, motor oil, bug spray; blower; weedwhacker; and shears in maintenance shed. Retrieved tools as needed for maintenance. 

Opening/Closing: Assisted maintenance with opening gates in the morning and making sure the event/ stage area was locked at night to keep staff safe; opening; Locked side service lot gates & back door if leaving and back of house staff was gone. 

Lawn maintenance & Front of Building Maintenance: Pressure washing (need to confirm), blowing leaves from lot, pulled weeds/ cut small trees from asphalted parking lot and mulched/sidewalk area; Sheared/ trimmed bushes near parking spaces along building. Used weed eater to cut grass along front of fence and between sidewalk and road. Used weed eater to cut lawn in overflow parking lot.  

Back of Building Maintenance:  Blowing leaves from service lot and back parking lot; pulling weeds/ cutting small trees from asphalt and mulched area. Dumped a few trash bins of rocks and dirt and spread them along building side to prevent flooding and mud. 

Side of Building Maintenance: Cleared leaves with blower & pulled weeds from side service lot. 

Event Set-Up: Located storage boxes in storage areas. Moved storage boxes. Lifted/carried boxes. Loaded boxes onto dolly. Moved storage boxes to bar or event set-up areas. Unpacked stored items. Unpacked/washing glasses to restock pint glass shelves/ wine glass storage & tumbler storage. Decorating event area. organizing, lifting and moving tables, & chairs, making sure server paths are wide enough for servers and bussers to walk with tray comfortably without worrying about bumping customers. 

Event band set-up: Helped bands unload and set-up equipment on stage. Help plugged in equipment and provided band with refreshments. Talked to bands made them comfortable let event-management/management know band was at facility. Asked band if there was anything they needed and communicated it to event/management/ management.

Used Ladder: Changing lightbulbs of hanging wire. Hanging event decorations.

Tent Set-up: working with communicating with partner. Unpacking and carrying poles from storage. Sorting vertical/diagonal/horizontal poles. Inserting poles into Tent-Cover. Tent Cover Tie-downs. Rope tightening. Knot-tying. Tent Cover Water Puddle Clearing.

Patio & Event Area Maintenance: Picking up palm leaves/prawns from patio and behind patio areas; moving leaves/prawns to yard waste pick-up area. Pulling/ Trimming dead or dying leaves/prawns or palm leaves from trees; pulled weeds from tree area; picked up trash from behind patio.

Back side service yard Fence maintenance: Foliage clearing; Removed foliage with large shears & by hand with gardening gloves and goggles; Removed foliage from falling fence. Cleared property side of fence from foliage that was causing fence to fall/tilt. Removed 5-20 yards of vines/overgrowth/foliage. 

 Truck Washing: Cleaned and dried the front car of a box truck with some rags a bucket of soap & water; maybe pressure washed sides of truck.

Flooded Boat Maintenance: Cleaned water damaged/flooded boat; unsnapped removed boat and cover; Bailed out a flooded boat with a trash can, used a bucket of soap, bleach, and water to wipe down/wash molded/leather boat seats. Maybe Vacuumed carpet with shop-vac? and or towel; Pressure washed boat cover, cleaned out molded under deck, maybe checked engine compartment and cleaned out flooded water. Assisted pressure washing boat fiber glass exterior; maybe washed back fiber glass deck & part of the front deck with soap/bleach and water; Washed boat interior; wiped down back boat fin with soap/bleach and water. Washed boat back deck with soap. Cleaned boat leather. 

After Interviewing and passing an extensive background check: Turned down Finalized Dream job offer to work at Facebook AR cleanroom Research Facility. WTF?

Worked at Longhorn Steakhouse as Salad/Fry Line-Cook

Salad/Fry Expo; Made salads & dressings; managed on-line salad & fry cooler inventory while maintaining line operations; Mixed salads and dressings; Poured soups; added ingredients to soups: Prepared soups for deep frier to put in oven; Added cheese & ingredients and chives to soup. Watched ticket monitor for incoming ticket orders. Communicated/ called out orders to Deep frier; Plated & stored house salads; made house salads to order. Managed / timed up microwaved sauces to match up with deep frier orders based on deep frier feedback/ commands. Prepared plates for deep frier to plate hot items. Poured sauce on fried items. Put plated items in window.

Deep Frier; Battered, portioned, stocked and Deep fried: Chicken for sandwiches; shrimp; fried chicken legs & thighs; and French Fries.  Took orders from and communicated to salad/fry expo.

After Interviewing and passing an extensive background check: Turned down Finalized Dream job offer to work at Syracuse cleanroom Research Facility. WTF?

Completed Google IT Support Professional Certificate, including the following courses: 

IT Security: Defense against the Dark Arts; 

System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services; 

Operating Systems and You: Becoming a Power User; 

The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking. 

Google Technical Support Fundamentals

2022-January-Alabama Camping Trip

Running away to Alabama; running from the choppers; a picnic near a neighborhood; listening to Christian radio; vacating the premises; route 99; finding the watershed; lost in the feedlot; stranded; a tow offer abandoned; hoofprints at the watershed; following the path; Finding a shelter; building a staff; digging out a car; Surviving the thunderstorm. 

Spent 1-2 days camping out on unsigned private property (wasn't sure if property was public or private) listening to Christian radio. Picked up supplies at a local gas station. Property owner and local law enforcement were courteous in requesting that I vacate the property; whereby I proceeded to hide the car in the brush ;backing into a grove of trees; and covering  the front of the car with a tarp; I waited out there for a while organizing my supplies and taking a nap; while listening to ping-ping of batting practice at nearby baseball field and the search helicopters flying above me; I then made my way to a water shed camp for a week or two; while driving to the water shed, I took a wrong turn into a feeding lot and got my car strand on a sandbank just off the sand road; (maybe could have been a hunting ground or feeder lot). 

After a nap, met a nice gentleman who offered to call someone to help get the car pulled out of the sand bank. I was kind of dick and maybe not as nice as I should have been, didn't say much to the nice gentleman; but was on a mission to get away from society and camp out until my birthday January 15; I was trying to get away from society and the pressures that were mounting; and paranoia caused from the city; could have been bi-polar manic episode induced paranoia ; Just trying to get away and think about things for a couple weeks; 

I followed a path down to the reservoir and noticed the hoofprints in the sand; was still too close to the main path; followed a path of yellow paint trail markers deeper into the woods after crossing a couple streams; set-up camp/shelter between a large fallen tree 3-4 feet in diameter and a hill; 25-30 yards from the mark path. I had my sleeping bag; a fm/am radio; A Leatherman wingman knife, Brawler Flip assisted knife; (my seal pup and plastic sheath fell out of my pocket while walking in the woods/ jumping across multiple 4-5 foot streams; I retraced my steps to find the pup but couldn't locate it spent a 1/2 a day to a day trying to find it); A water filter, a pair of Cutco scissors; and mini-crowbar; 2 stainless folding pans; a legal bag ; a pencil; a write-in-rain note book with my contacts in it some bread/ Potatoe chips and a bag of pancake mix; a water filter bag; water filter; and a gallon of water; I set up my sleeping bag on the side of a hill near the shelter and found a small tree

The next day I walked back out to the car and grabbed some supplies and left the suitcases and maybe a tarp; outside the car;  Inside the car the first or second night at the camp there was a thunderstorm and freezing rain, I spent the night awake shivering and teeth chattering, while using a solar blanket and a sleeping bag to keep from freezing in the rain.

I thought about how the shivering and convulsions kept me warm during the rain, but mostly I thought about the cold and the cold and the cold and the cold that could block any thoughts at all; all I could think about was staying warm and struggled to squeeze any amount of warmth out of the solar blanket and let the warmth soak up into my freezing and shivering body in the freezing rain; I thought about surviving the storm and freezing rain and that I might freeze to death If I couldn't get shelter from the rain; time seemed to slow and the minutes seemed like hours waiting for the sun to rise and to feel the warmth of the light.  

I couldn't sleep the entire night the cold and a shivering and noise of chattering teeth keeping me awake, while the solar blanket inside my sleeping bag kept just enough warmth to keep me from freezing in (20-30 mph winds? need to verify the winds were strong). During the night I felt something crawl into my pantleg; I didn't pay much attention to it; I looked at the thermometer and read 35 degrees as I lay soaking and freezing while the rain water steamed down the side of the hill into my back as the lightning cracked, the rain fell, and the thunder rumbled the ground around me; when the sun rose in the morning the light of sun warmed the wet blanket and signaled the end of the shivering and chattering and cold of the evening. I laid the sleeping bag and removed my clothes in the 40 degree weather taking off my clothing one piece at a time and lying them in the sun to dry; I hung up some fishing line between some trees and hung up one pair of the two or three pairs of pants I was wearing to dry (I removed the second pair and third pair and found what had crawled into my pants legs during the thunderstorm was a small lizard that probably crawled into my pantleg to keep warm; It was still warm but had been crushed in the night under the weight of my body; while I was trying to stay warm). I stood in the sun (I changed into a dry pair of boxers) and (maybe put on a shirt and shorts I had stored in a drybag); As my clothes dried.  I began to build the shelter from saw palmetto palms stacking them like shingles and picking up shingles of bark to make a shelter roof; I collected branches from the surrounding area and stacked them at the side of the shelter to make a wall and collected saw palmetto palm overlapping them while stacking them like shingles against the branch wall.

 After a week and a half of listening to the radio; scouting the area and foraging for berries, grapes, and nuts I called my brother. 

After Camping Arrest

For arrest 01/14/2022 for Illegal Camping

2023-South of bay bluffs park shelter

  Decided to visit parents; While practicing Quasi-urban survival outdoor conditioning (eating an average of once every 5 days)-Left Chimney Park with backpack, staff, sleeping bag, waterproof cargo bag, 1-2 gallons of water, and a power bank, and a lamp; (Left at Chimney Park;  suitcase pair of dress shoes; at least 1 water proof cargo bag of food and supplies; fishing line, paracord, Leatherman wingman multi-tool, protein/nutrition powder, and olive oil) was planning to return to get supplies; ). After a couple treks to parents' new apartment near Hyde park rd. for supplies/showering- 3.5 miles away; with backpack, staff, sleeping bag, waterproof cargo bag, 1-2 gallons of water, and a power bank. Moved closer to parents apartment to continue outdoor conditioning. 

It rained during one morning after the 3.5 mile walk with heavy supplies; rested at the top of a ravine and left borrowed power bank at a nearby fire pit area in an inflatable raft; Walked to area near parents apartment; rested at shelter at the bottom of the ravine at Hyde Park Pl. and Scenic heights; while resting; the Iphone SE was lost underwater and mud during the rain; slept on a nearby the hill while ravine area flooded; after sleeping in the rain in temperatures ranging from 35-60 degrees and wet / freezing rain conditions ; and after walking 3.5 miles the previous evening with the aforementioned supplies; walked up the ravine to parents apartment. showered and re-supplied at parents' apartment; went back next day for power bank at the fire pit but it was missing the inflatable raft was still there; Had access to closet during cold/rain to store notepads and internet access to publish An Adventurers Guide to Cryptography on linked in.  Lost access to phone / phone number after ravine flood; after talking to mama bear; showered and went back down to shelter found phone in the mud and Dried phone in a bag of rice for 1-2 weeks to get it functioning again; After phone was powered on checked camera functionality; imaging a bic camping lighter;  Might of slept on the couch for a night might;  took some nude images with a nasa hat on; 

Practiced Rainwater Catching and survived on rainwater for 1-2 weeks at a time. Used gallon jugs to catch rainwater from trees and shelter roof filling up 2–3-gallon jugs for drinking water. Trash bag water collection transferring to tin or jug or tilted as to drain water into a jug or tin.

Made a Stone Knife with a shoestring, tree branch, and a sharp stone found near the railroad track. Practiced stone chipping making a few flint? razors. Practiced/ completed knife tactility drills placing sharp end of knife in spaces between digits of fingersl ifting knife up and place knife back down in between digits of fingers as fast as can be done safely. Practiced dropping and picking up knife and stabbing wood posts/bench without hurting yourself or getting cut.  Practiced knife handling/twirling handle and blade in hand. Built a Knife sheath from shoe tongue and wire fastener

Read publications (10-30 publications?) on Cryptography; wireless networks; penetration testing; WPS and AES encryption, android operating system; network science; Yuval Noah Harari's Homo sapiens 3 times; All the Pretty Horses (2 times), The Crossing (once or twice); Cities on the plain (started maybe read ( 50-70 % of leviathan, Read parts of "Through the Looking Glass", The Iliad, Read ad reviewed parts of modern physics; started writing leviathan definition outlining Thomas Hobbes' theory of psychology. Derived base units 1st iteration review of work completed at USF.  Reviewed The Real Thomas Jefferson reread a lot of Thomas Jeffersons writings on various subjects; Read the Constitution frontmatter & introduction and the Bill of Rights. Read parts of Thomas Paine's Common Sense. 

Practiced first aid- emergency medical procedure; Self-treated Abscessed Tooth infection; Drained Potatoe chip caused potentially fatal tooth abscess swelling in right top molar; attempted to pull tooth with a pair of pliers (made infection worse); caused swelling from nose to Temple below the right eye to extrude beyond my cheek bone and swelling inside mouth making roof of mouth level with gum line. Penetrated abscess with sharpened toothpick partially draining cheek abscess.

Dissey, confused, kinda stumbling, tottering, tired, dehydrated, migraine headache, pulsing pain from abscessed tooth ranging from nose to temple. Walked to bay bluffs park and cemetery looking for help. Returned to shelter south of bay bluffs park and slept. Took a chance and tried to sleep it off. Survived the night and used a sharpened toothpick to puncture gums again, able to penetrate and drain the abscess after sucking the tooth with Tongue. Continued to penetrate abscess with a sharpened toothpick and drain abscess spitting out maybe 1/4 cups of blood maybe every 12-24 hours.

Danced-

Danced from Hyde park pl. and scenic heights to bay bluffs park for a trash Bin pick-up.

Danced from parents' apartment to Hyde Park pl. and scenic heights.

Conservation of tobacco-harvested and stored tobacco from cigarette butts and cigars. Chewed cigar tobacco

(August 2023-November 29th, 2024)- 1517 E Lloyd St. Pensacola, FL, 32503-

Left Hyde Park, FL, and Scenic Heights Ravine Shelter

August 2023-Yard Work, Computer Repair, Programming Logic, Algebra, Electronics Circuits

Bagged leaves, mowed lawn, raked side yard, blew leaves, edged concrete, edged sidewalk, weed-catered edge of fence. Cleaned concrete area of dirt, weeds. 

Researched basics electronics repairs on YouTube: Read PC circuit board schematics, PC basic electronics schematics, Troubleshooting PC boards, for computer 1-Dell latitude e6540, performed root cause-analysis on mother board/ DC Power Jack. For computer 2-Dell 20$ used computer/ LCD Screen. Drew schematic of digital timer, studied batteries , drew battery schematics, 

Mathematics review and studied my grandfather's book Audels guide to mathematics; introduction to numbering systems; and basic electronics circuits,

Started staring at a map for long periods of time. Got really, really, really sick while living in the shed behind the house at 1517 E. Lloyd St. Pensacola FL. slept next to lawn mower.  Covid or pneumonia (fall 2023) didn't eat anything except dried Raman noodles for 1-2 months. 

• Researched Soldering Li-ion soldering iron, Researched outlet soldering iron, Dismantled and drew glue gun schematics for heating element materials review, Researched Lightbulb filaments for Soldering iron material, dismantled lightbulbs and drew schematics of measured parts, analyzed light bulb part materials, qualitative analysis, magnetic properties of parts, to identify materials,

Electronics Experiments

Christmas light battery tester.

Successfully tested li-ion battery with aluminum foil wires and Copper wires and nickel wires. Dismantled Alkaline battery after YouTube research and drawing alkaline battery schematics., Researched Li-ion batteries.

2024-CMDLINE Development

Researched CMDline 5-10 tutorials; Developed CMDline Programs from Microsoft cmdline Help command; includng a CMDLine Matrix Program in a single line of code; with Customizable cell; Text, numbers, and characters; Batch row editing; Batch column editing. A CMDLine Menu Navigation program A CMDLine Calendar Creation program. A CMDLine Graphing program. Customizable Characters and Diagonal Lines, Vertical Lines, and Horizontal Lines, and the Combinations there-of (may have required a few extra commands).

2024-July/August-September-29-Volunteered at Oasis and Library- Pamphleteering. 

Dancing Downtown with musicians handing out Oasis Pamphlets and HIV Protection; Handing out hygiene bags to downtown homeless. Performance dancing downtown with musicians.

2025-November 25th 2024-january 2025- John Thomas Winskas Sole Proprietorship- 

Address: 1517 E. Lloyd St. Pensacola FL.

Journalism Nanotechnology, Cybersecurity, wireless technology & security; Emergency Preparedness, Urban Survival and FEMA Documentation research.

Projects:

Created John T Winskas Sole Proprietorship Brand & Logo; 

Created Johntwinskas@gmail.com; Johntwinskas@gmail.com-GitHub. 

Created Johntwinskas-Github;

Created johnThomaswinskas Portfolio website for career/applications. 

Created Copy of Project_2_Comprehensive Career Resource (CCR) January 2025, Version 0.1

Created Project 30-Account Recovery Project-John T. Winskas, January 2025, Version 0.1 Document to assist in account/ identity recovery

Created Developing & maintaining Emergency Operations document template From FEMA Source Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Document Template v0.3

Created Personal ICS Document management system

Created Calendar/time management System

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=am9obnR3aW5za2FzQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ

Created/ Implemented Calendar Scheduling system

https://calendar.app.google/Hc5TciZy8cjB7v7E6

Slept on couch while:

Organized Weathered documents

Used manilla folders for Document storage

Used sliding folders and made labels for personal document storage

Sorted Personal Documents

Researched

Cover Letter Formatting

Resume formatting

Researched

Escambia county Homeless Resources

Phoneless Resources

Lifeline

USAC

Collected homeless resource documents & pamphlets

FEMA Publication documentation Review & Summaries. 

Reviewed FEMA documentation

Researched Escambia County; Public Resources for Documents & contacts.

Researched Pensacola; Public Services & Resources & contacts.

Watched Pensacola State of the city address stream on PNJ website

Joined Pensacola city news list.

Completed: IS-317A 

In-progress: IS-100 

Current Projects: Homeless life/Account Recovery guide; Comprehensive Career Resource Resume building guide.

Contact info: JohnTWinskas@gmail.com

Current Address: 1517 E Lloyd St., Pensacola,FL  (November 25th, 2024-current date)

Previous Addresses: 

Escambia County Jail (September 29th-November 25th, 2024)

1517 E Lloyd St., Pensacola, FL, (August 2023-September 29th, 2024)

Hyde Park Pl. and Scenic Heights, Pensacola, FL, (2023)

Chimney Park (2022-2023)

Keystone Rd. (2022-2023)

2012 E. Hernandez St. (2020-2021)

Sarasota, FL

Bradenton, FL

Albany, NY

Tampa, FL

Champaign, IL

Rensallear,IN