John T Winskas Sole Proprietorship
Champaign, IL, (2006)
Do It Best Hardware (Summer 2006)
Mopped Floors, faced product in aisles, Located items for customers. Restocked Items; checked Aisles for Items; assisted customers with Cutting Plexi-glass, cutting glass, cutting chicken-wire, Assembled equipment for front of store sales.
Cutco Knifes (Summer 2006)
Sales Training, reciting from call script for call sales, Reciting from script for in person sales & Pitches.
Rensselaer , IN, (2006)
Fireworks Warehouse & St. Joseph's College Football Training -Rensselaer In.
(05/2006-09/2006)
Fireworks Warehouse
Picked up boxes, Loaded boxes onto dollies, Load 43 foot and 50-foot semitrailers with fireworks
St. Josephs' College Football Training-(summer + 1 semester)
Weightlifting
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.
Agility exercises
Ladder exercises
Wind sprints
From one side of the field to the other and back to the original side
Moving 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 original position.
Leather object 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.
Tampa,FL, (2008-2018)
After struggling with multiple boughts of debilitating depression and failing out of Parkland college- 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.
(2008)- Delivery Driver; Food Running
I started my career as Delivery Driver for Giordano's and began a work-out routine; going to the gym and/or playing basketball every day; and reading; Chuck Palahniuk's-Fight Club and Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in The West 1-2 times. After leaving Giordano's suffered from another bought of depression.
After which I worked for a few months as a food runner for The Bamboo Club at International Mall until the restaurant closed. Watched some movies during that time to including Apaloosa, In Brudges; watched a lot of episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher; drank a lot of whiskey and beer; Listened to good music and met some fucking awesome people.
(2009)- Training &School& Reading & Injury
January of 2009, I moved out of my parents' house and into the apartments at Hillsborough Community College and enrolled in Hillsborough Community College; After reading The rise and Fall of The Third Reich, Fight club, Choke, lullaby (not sure if I finished lullaby), Blood Meridian Or the The Evening Redness in The West and maybe some other books; I went to a super bowl party and after giving a speech about John Adams and Alfred Thayer Mahan; I Ended up failing out of Hillsborough Community College. During the next year I started Training and working out at golds gym, running a couple miles, doing sit-ups until failure, push-ups until failure, and bridges until failure between every lap; and playing basketball almost every day and getting kind of tan.
During this time, I Attempted to sign up for the Marines, a misspelled name, caused me to have to reschedule my ASVAB test; I ended up scheduling my ASVAB with the Airforce due to the spelling error. After taking the ASVAB with the Airforce I was assigned a date to return to the recruiting center that (fall?). I continued training running, working-out, playing basketball every day; shortly before my signing date with the Airforce; while landing after maybe dunking a basketball; I tore a few ligaments in my ankle; after a visit with a trainer at the University of Tampa; it was determined that my ankle would require the third reconstructive surgery of my life after the 2 reconstructive surgeries on my left knee and multiple knee scoping procedures, 2 hernia repairs and a hydrocele repair, that required a mesh and 2 4 inch scars on either side of my Gentelia. Surgery was scheduled for that winter and planned a drive to champaign for my surgery.
Before Halloween I drove up to Champaign, Ill, during the 16-hour drive to Champaign, Ill, I listened to Thus Spak Zarathustra beginning an interest in Fredrich Nitsche and the foundations and beginnings of Freudian psychology in Nietzschean philosophy. After surgery, at Carl Foundation Hospital 09/29/2009, while in Champaign, I found a book titled CHE a revolutionary life at . While in bed rest after the surgery and during rehab in my parents' basement, I began to read about Guevara's Early Life and reading and writing habits as a teenager and during his first stint in medical school and learning about the change that a normal middle-class kid could make if they, radicalize themselves, dedicating themselves to their studies, learning, reading, and or achieving;"; "and you may not need to run from your empathy for others and that the empathy that creates the radicalization is a blessing and not a burden if you could find a way to channel the repressed hurt from the empathy you have towards others and use it to fuel your own ambition and or the ambition of society."- unknown source ; and I played video games ; I beat/finished Drakes Uncharted; played Tyler Zimmerman in Tekken (Best character: Eddie Gordo); Dropped 4-5oo yards with Cutler a couple times; might of got B. Marsh 25-30 receptions 300 yards it was mainly screen passes though. Spent thanksgiving and Christmas 2009 in Champaign, IL, read Suttree.
"And now I see it etched in the night; that I the diclectic dissector of doctrines, psycho-analyst of dogmas, will be with the people, and will assault the barricades and trenches; and howling like one possessed; will bathe my sword in blood."-Che
2010-Reading & Dishwashing
After driving back down to Tampa listening to Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in The West, read guerilla warfare & motorcycle diaries 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 Thomas Jefferson In His Owns words; 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; 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 & prep-cook - full time & Community College - full time
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.
Summer 2011
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.
Summer 2012
After I graduated, I transferred to USF to study Chemical Engineering, during a tour before being enrolled at the University of South Florida; The tour group walked by a building named the Nanotechnology Research & Education Center otherwise known as the NREC. I later revisited the NREC with resume in hand for an interview with the current director of the facility, after obtaining my Student ID I was allowed to volunteer, and began my nanotechnology education assisting the staff and graduate researchers at the NREC as a volunteer engineer assistant, research engineer assistant, and research scientist assistant training on the wafer dicing saw, x-ray crystallography diffractometer, and clean room safety procedure that summer.
2012
Projects Assigned from Metrology Engineer
Project #1 Jacobs 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, 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 #2 Jacobs 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 #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. Observered successful Ionization of air/plasma between copper wires.
Prototype #4 Worked with machine shop for final adjustments to Jacobs ladder for NREC demonstrations
From an oil igniter, power cord , eell 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 #2 - 12000v power supply
Created a 12kv 100 Ma power supply from two oil igniters connected in parallel; arcing issues tried to place insulation on bare metal connectors.
project #3 - power supply
Priced out and ordered power supply for electrical experiments
Projects assigned from Cleanroom Engineer
Volunteered as 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.
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.
Cleaning-Stained Wet Benches
After 5 months of volunteering at the facility my work continued as a volunteer undergraduate research assistant helping with a prototype project for the IBIS Research Lab, Shortley after I was hired on the to the research group as an undergraduate research assistant while continuing to volunteer time to the NREC.
The following summer I was hired as an engineering intern at Draper Laboratory where I continued to utilize the facilities 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.
Volunteer-Nanotechnology Research & Education Center (NREC)
NREC-Certifications
Cleanroom
Dektak 150 Profilometry
EDS (Electro Static Discharge)
Nanospec Reflectometer
Microscope
Plasma-Therm PECCVD/RIE
Cleaning Wetbench
WYKO 9100 Optical Profilometer
Cleanroom Safety
Metrology
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Hitachi- Su70
High-resolution Imaging
EDS (energy dispersive spectroscopy)
Ebeam Lithography
(AFM) Atomic Force Microscope
X-ray Crystallography
X-ray Diffractometer
(FIB) Focused Ion Beam
Ion Milling
Cleanroom Lithography
Filmetrics Reflectometer
Quintel Mask Aligner
Hazardous Waste
Volunteer-USF-Innovative Biomedical Instruments & Systems (IBIS)
Optical Fiber face Photo Resist spinning device prototype
Optical Fiber face photo-resist spinning process design, experimental design, Microscope imaging, SEM imaging, Optical profilometry, surface roughness analysis, surface angle and cleave angle.
Tampa,FL, (2012-17)
USF-Undergraduate Research Assistant-IBIS
Metrology
SEM Imaging
Experiment Documentation
Experimental Design
Data Organization
Data Labeling hierarchies
Nano-scale Endoscope
Prototype Research
Prototype Design
FIB Device design
SiO2 nano wire experiments
Prototype 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
Dicing saw depth calculations
Dicing saw depth to trench width calculations
Optical fiber coupling device prototype 1 metrology.
Optical microscope imaging
Optical microscope measurements
Dicing saw trench measurements.
Optical fiber 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.
Optical Fiber Face E-beam Vaporization.
Optical Fiber face 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.
Optical Fiber Face Cleaving microscope imaging.
Optical Fiber Face cleaving Optical Profilometry.
Optical Fiber Face Cleaving SEM Imaging.
Optical Fiber Face Cleaving Experiments documentation.
USF-IBIS Research Lab Equipment Purchasing Research.
Optical Fiber Cleaver-Research & Pricing.
Optical Fiber cleaver research & pricing documentation.
Optical Fiber Fusion Splicer Research & Pricing.
Optical Fiber Cleaver & Fusion splicer manufacturer & retailer emailing.
Initial contact
Initial quote
Optical Fiber Cleaver & Fusion splicer purchase contract negotiation.
Cleared Optical Fiber Cleaver & Fusion splicer Purchase contract with Principle Investigator.
Fusion splicer & cleaver unpacking
Read cleaving & splicing directions
Fiber to fiber splicing
Created custom process for fiber splicing to a 4 cm optical fiber.
Nanoscale Endoscope prototype 2 design- etching
HF Etch Experiments
Optical Fiber materials publication Research.
Optical Fiber etching research.
Semiconductor Grade HF handling Procedures.
Semiconductor Grade HF waste Procedure.
Si-02 experimental design & documentation
Si-02 etch rate calculations
Initial experiment parameters
Publications research
Si-o2 fabrication experiments
Hf etch Experiment set up design
HF si-o2 etching experiment
Etch time
SEM image thickness measurements
Taper angle measurements
Taper length measurements
Etch rate calculations
Experimental iterations
Nanoscale device confirmation
Breast Cancer cell confocal microscopy experiments.
Worked with Moffit cancer center
Fluorescence imaging
Broken fiber
Optical trapping effects?
Thermo plasmonic device prototype
Initial Plasmonics research
Sputtered film absorption research
Au film adherence research.
Au Sputtered film absorption spectrum experimentation.
Au cr sputtered film absorption spectrum research.
Au cr sputtered film absorption spectrum experiments.
Au sputtered film absorption spectrum research.
Au sputtered film absorption spectrum 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?
SEM?
Super Resolution Microscopy
Super Resolution Microscopy Research.
CCD Camera sensor Technology Research.
Super Resolution microscopy Vendor Demonstration.
Super Resolution microscopy in-lab vendor demonstration.
Compare & contrast vendor technology w/ CCD sensor microscope add-on technology.
Infrared Camera
infrared Camera technology research.
infrared Camera sensor sensitivity testing.
Spatial resolution sensitivity experiments.
Thermal resolution sensitivity experiments.
Tampa-(2013-15)
Draper Laboratory- Engineering Intern
Particle Root-cause analysis.
Statistical Process Control, Air, human and wafer carrier contributions, SEM Imaging & EDS Analysis,. RCA 1 & 2 wafer carrier Clean effect particle monitoring. Hazardous material Handling, Hazardous waste storage, Wafer Particle density mapping. Material Surface Charge Analysis & Mapping.
DI Water System root-cause analysis.
Worked with and assisted senior engineering on a DI Water system project that included experimental Design; DI Water Sampling Techniques; Testing Techniques, DI water particle Filtering, Tap Water Filtering, Microscope imaging, System tools& equipment particle monitoring; Wet Bench Issue Analysis & Experimental Design, Particle root-cause analysis; Bacteria root-cause analysis; DI water filtration system Rough Diagram, Reverse osmosis system component root-cause analysis; Filtration system root-Cause analysis ; Water PH testing; Qualitative/ Quantitative analysis of DI water Tank particle counts.
Electroplating Process Review & SPC software inmplementation.
Working with technicians to complete Statistical Process Control (SPC) Parameters & procedures. SEM Imaging and EDS of unknown defects. Completed CVS Analysis to gather SPC data and chemical Titrations. Trained on Hazardous material Handling procedures and Hazardous waste storage procedures.
RIE root-cause analysis
Assisted Engineer with RIE root cause/failure analysis; including SEM Imaging; EDS analysis of defects along with Tool Materials research & analysis.
Metrology-root-cause analysis.
Assisted Engineering with other root-cause analysis SEM Imaging and EDS analysis
SPC Software Implemenation.
Assisted Technicians and Engineers with Statistical Process Control Parameter selection.
Tampa,FL, (2016)
Aurora Semiconductor-Engineering Intern
Authored Environmental Health & Safety Hazardous Waste SOP including Hazardous Waste safety, handling, Storage procedures; Disposal, A chemical reaction chart, and an introduction to OSHA & (maybe International) symbols. Trained on the Electroless plating process under an Engineering technician that included: Process Training from Technician, Process research/ review, Waste Procedures & material recovery process review.
Tampa,FL (2018-2019)
3D Printing Experience
Worked with staff at USF Advanced visualization center to set up the Shimberg Library 3D Printing Lab for the USF Medical School Library. Trained and assisted students on Computer-aided Design (CAD) / 3D Modeling, & 3D print optimization.
(2018-2021)-Tampa, FL; Albany, NY; Bradenton, FL; Sarasota, FL; Pensacola, FL;
2WM (2018-2021)
Researched Linux operating systems, phone operating systems, blockchain, Hyperledger iroha, began practicing with Hyperledger iroha & docker tutorials, turned down Job offer for IT Developer Position
Alabany,NY (2018-2019)
IBM, Metrology Engineering Technician (2018-1019)
Bradenton & Sarasota (2020)
Pensacola (2021-25)
(2020- 2021) -2012 E. Hernandez, Pensacola, FL
Completed IT Support professional Certificate, IBM Data Analysis and Visualization Foundations, System Administration Certification- Completed pending final submission, started studying for CompTIA security A+ and for CompTIA Security+ exam.
(2020-2021) -2WM-Researched Cybersecurity
Researched Linux operating systems, Google systems administration training professional certificate-final project in complete; phone operating systems, blockchain, Hyperledger iroha, began practicing with Hyperledger iroha & docker tutorials, turned down Job offer for IT Developer Position, Cubes OS research/Training, Tails research/training, Whonix research/Training, Read Whonix documentation, SE linux research, Read Debian Linux handbook and Wireless security publications, hardened android Research, researched paranoid operating system implementation.
John D. Winskas crying and begging to accept the car caused title signing. Car title signing coincided with the end of cyber security studies and the start of
Pensacola area scouting.
Scouted Pensacola neighborhoods for abandoned houses, Scouted surrounding wooded area for river access/ reservoir access.
Drove around Pensacola, lived in car at ride-share observed/people watched groups of people camping out at and walking around the ride share. Played music for fishermen at Plaza de luna, Watched Fishermen fishing, Learning/ studying non-verbal communication techniques.
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 the 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 stranded 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
(2022)-Beginning of survival/conditioning Keystone Rd. Chimney Park- 2022
Lost phone from Alabama Camping trip in the bay at chimney park. (no access to clothes while outdoors/ some clothes went missing/ then were returned).
Read Cyber Security, wrote Python code with pen and paper, studied wireless network fundamentals, cryptography, penetration testing, and traffic analysis publications/research; while, Starting quasi-urban survival outdoor conditioning at Chimney Park in Pensacola, FL; 14 days- without food & 7 days- without water (1 time); 10 without food (twice). Kept a journal of experiences; notated/observed mental effects of starvation and cognitive Abilities during self-induced extended fasting/starvation for 1-3 months eating an average of 3-5 days. Foraged in trash bins; Potatoe chips; Fries; Chinese food and for ketch-up/mustard/ and mayonnaise packets (1-2 months) . Typically had access to hose water nearby; and protein powders/ food supplies if necessary.
Practiced quasi-urban stealth, camouflage (blankets, hoodies), urban evasion, and hiding techniques. Moved from area to area unseen ducking into bushes if there was oncoming traffic; Moved during the evening and night., Moved along Railroad tracks, Hiding in reeds and wooded areas, Built a shelter from reeds and fishing line, Scouted Entrances and exits from railroad tracks to roads. Carried belongings in a backpack and 2 waterproof bags and a carried a staff. Lived outside for months at a time. Wrote publication An adventurer's guide to Cryptography published on Linkd-In on an Iphone SE and IphoneX. Practiced urban survival training including practicing quasi-urban stealth, evasion, and hiding techniques; Hiding in reeds and wooded areas; Remained unseen during multiple sting operations.
Took some tasteful photographs of a woodcutter 10oz mosquito spray can. Took a couple handsome selfies. While conditioning practicing outdoor survival. Studied kindle publications and books from google scholar and the Guttenberg project; read/ took notes on cyber security publications, practiced python with pen and paper (didnt have access to computer while outdoors); Borrowed a Power Bank and obtained an Iphone SE from John D. Winskas Jr. to complete An Adventures Guide to Cryptography Publication. Supplies were available at parents' house while living out; access to the garage; limited access to house sometimes. Most of the information was backed up in a series of text messages to my mother (Robin A. Winskas) from a hot spot borrowed for internet access and my linkd in account.
Helped parents and Conner move out of Keystone Rd. house, gained access to a (20$ used computer) given by John D. Winskas jr.(2022) and Created A bunch of nonsense you Turkey Blog.
(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 a 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 fingers lifting 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)I wasnt tough enough to pull it out; 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.
Did a little dancing -
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
Beginning of 2nd period of homelessness (After December 2023)
Burnt 5-20 pages notes (timeline unsure); Parents moved away; suffered from boughts of debilitating depression; sometime staring at the clouds for hours at time; contemplating the universe and the nature of reality; listening to the sound of airplanes & airplane engines; Bird watching; boat watching; Airplane watching. Phones went missing (IphoneX and Iphone SE) & Flashlight went missing.
Phone number canceled by parents. (2023) wasn't able to gain access to figure out when my phone number was canceled.
1517 E Lloyd St. Pensacola, FL, 32503-(August 2023-November 29th 2024)
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, pulled weeds; Trimmed vines from fence,
Researched basics electronics repairs on YouTube:
Reading PC circuit board schematics
Reading PC basic electronics schematics
Trouble shooting PC boards
For computer 1-Dell latitude e6540
Examined mother board
DC Power Jack
For computer 2-Dell 20$ used computer
LCD Screen
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.
Depression-(2023-2024)-(December-February)
-Debilitating Depression
-Sat/layed in bathroom staring at ceiling for a few months
-missed thanksgiving 2024
-missed Christmas 2024
-missed birthday 2024
2024 (February)
Bagged Leaves 1517 E Lloyd st., Pensacola, 32503
Pulled edge of fence weeds by hand with gardening gloves
Raked leaves from yard
Blew back, front, and side leaves
Raked, blew, bagged leaves from under house (10-20 bags)
Pulled weeds
Bagged 40 bags of leaves & weeds
Paint Organization & Consolidation
Organized and Consolidated Paint cans
Pried/ took down paint cans from shed shelving
Opened paint cans with hammer & screwdriver
Labeled paint cans
Checked paint Levels
Notated Paint Levels
Mixed Paints
Created Paint Sample Labels
Created Paint Sample guide
Tightened shelving unit
Placed numbered paint cans on shelving unit
Organized and Labeled wood
Removed wood from shed
Counted wood
Labeled wood
Created wood Guide log
Built Garden box
4 2x11's and 2 11x26's
CMDLINE Developement
Completed a few CMDline tutorials
Developed CMDline Programs from Microsoft cmdline Help command
Developed CMDLine Matrix Program in a single line of code
Customizable cells
Text, numbers, and characters
Batch row editing
Batch column editing
Developed CMDLine Menu Navigation program
Developed CMDLine Calendar Creation program
Developed CMDLine Graphing program
Customizable Characters
Diagonal Lines
Vertical Lines
Horizontal Lines
Combinations there-of may require some
2024-(September-November 25)- Escambia County Jail
John Thomas Winskas Sole Proprietorship- (November 25-january 2025)
Address: 1517 E. Lloyd st. Pensacola FL.
Researched, Journalism Nanotechnology, Cybersecurity, wireless technology & security; Emergency Preparedness, Urban Survival and FEMA Documentation research. 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; FEMA Publication / documentation Review & Summaries; Magazine quality document writing. Adventurers guide to Cryptography Published to LinkedIn.
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