Technical Specialist

Fabrication Engineer

I’m Jason R. Woodcock, a maker and technology-focused problem solver based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with roots on the Gulf Coast in Long Beach, Gulfport, and Biloxi.

If you search my name online, you will find public records tied to serious parts of my past: a statutory rape conviction from my late teens, a later federal case involving fraudulent BP oil spill claims, and a widely publicized dispute with Microsoft over my hosting of the FairUse4WM tool. Those records exist, and I am not trying to hide them.

I built this page because I believe people make better decisions when they have the full picture. Rather than leaving others to piece my life together from court records, headlines, and search results, I would rather put the facts in one place and speak for myself directly.

That history is only part of my story. Today, my work centers on commercial kitchen design and fabrication, 3D printing, VR walkthroughs, web and server infrastructure, and reentry efforts that help people returning from prison find real employment. This page is here to present those things side by side: the record, the work, and the person I am now.

My Past

My past includes two serious criminal cases and one public technology dispute. All three are part of the public record, and all three are part of my history.

The first major case on my record is a statutory rape conviction from Harrison County, Mississippi. In 1997, when I was 17, I was living with friends in an apartment on Park Road in Long Beach. During that time, I entered into a relationship with a girl in my neighborhood who had just turned 15. We were close in age, and at the time I understood the relationship as consensual. Under Mississippi law, that did not change the fact that she was under 16, and I was legally responsible for crossing that boundary.

On February 21, 2000, I pleaded guilty to statutory rape in the Circuit Court of Harrison County. I received a five-year sentence, with one year suspended, was required to serve the sentence day for day, and was ordered to register as a sex offender. For those who want to review that case directly, the plea hearing transcript is available here: Plea Hearing Transcript – State of Mississippi v. Jason Richard Woodcock, February 21, 2000

I do not share that history to argue with it or explain it away. I share it because it is real, it is public, and it remains part of the life I have had to account for ever since. With time and perspective, I understand its seriousness more clearly than I did then, and I understand why the consequences have been lasting.

In 2006, I was also involved in a widely discussed dispute with Microsoft over digital rights management. I hosted FairUse4WM, a tool that allowed users to remove DRM from Windows Media files. Microsoft responded with legal threats intended to force the site offline. I chose to challenge that position rather than immediately take the site down, and in the end Microsoft did not follow through on the threatened action. Coverage of that dispute is available here: Engadget coverage of the FairUse4WM dispute

Several years later, I became involved in a federal case related to false BP oil spill claims. In 2010, I participated in a scheme that used falsified documents to submit fraudulent claims to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which had been created to compensate people and businesses affected by the Deepwater Horizon spill. I admitted to creating false paperwork and taking part in a conspiracy that led to more than $100,000 in fraudulent payments, with a larger amount intended.

For that conduct, I was charged in federal court and sentenced to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. The case, the sentence, and the conduct behind it were all covered publicly in court records and news reporting, including a U.S. Department of Justice press release and a Forbes article discussing the case and sentence.

Taken together, these matters are serious. They led to years in both state and federal custody and shaped the course of my life in lasting ways. My return to the community was not a single moment or a clean break. It happened in stages, including time in a federal halfway house and a period under probation and parole supervision.

I am not sharing any of this to minimize what I did or to ask for sympathy. I am sharing it because the information is already public, and because accountability, to me, means being straightforward about what happened. I would rather people read a complete account than form an impression from fragments.

My Work and My Life Now

My transition back into the community began in June 2023, when I was moved to Dismas Charities in Hattiesburg as part of my federal reentry process. I remained there until May 2024. After that, I continued under probation and parole, rebuilding my life step by step and focusing on practical work, consistency, and forward motion.

Today, much of my work centers on commercial kitchen design and fabrication. I design and 3D print functional parts and components for commercial kitchens, using both resin and FDM printers depending on the demands of the application. That work includes brackets, mounts, adapters, custom fixtures, and layout components.

On the design side, I use Autodesk Fusion, Revit, and AutoCAD to create detailed commercial kitchen layouts and equipment plans. I also build VR walkthroughs so owners and operators can experience and refine their spaces before construction or remodeling begins.

In addition to design and 3D printing, I manage and maintain websites and servers. That includes domains, DNS, SSL certificates, and backend configuration to keep systems reliable, secure, and working as they should. What began years ago as curiosity and necessity has grown into a disciplined way of solving problems: test, measure, break, fix, improve.

I also serve on a community resource board connected to a local halfway house focused on reentry. I do not believe successful reentry happens in isolation. In most cases, it depends on a network of people willing to help with housing, paperwork, transportation, and especially employment. That kind of support made a real difference in my own life, and it is one reason I now try to help connect people returning from prison with viable jobs in the local restaurant industry, often through relationships I have built with commercial kitchen clients.

My goal is to turn what I have lived through into something useful. That means helping create real opportunities, real paychecks, and real stability for people who are trying to move forward.

Why This Site Exists

This site is not here to relitigate my past or polish it into something more comfortable. It is here to put the facts, the record, and the work in one place.

If you are here because you are looking closely at my background, that is fair. If you are here because you are interested in my work, that is welcome too. Either way, I would rather be clear than evasive.

I have chosen not to make this site about an employer or a job title. I want it to reflect the whole of who I am: the mistakes I made, the consequences that followed, the skills I have built, and the work I am doing now to move forward in a transparent and responsible way.

If my experience or skills would be useful to you, whether in commercial kitchen design, VR walkthroughs, 3D-printed parts and prototypes, web and server infrastructure, or reentry work connected to the restaurant industry, I am open to a conversation. I would rather be known for the full truth than for a partial story told by search results.

Plea Hearing Transcript – State of Mississippi v. Jason Richard Woodcock, February 21, 2000
Link to: https://ppl-ai-file-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/web/direct-files/attachments/81225805/53dea902-5467-4a5b-bbaf-f11e3a6836d7/Transcripts.pdf

Engadget coverage of the FairUse4WM dispute
Link to: https://www.engadget.com/2006-09-16-microsoft-nastygrams-site-for-hosting-fairuse4wm.html

U.S. Department of Justice press release
Link to: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdms/pr/d-iberville-man-sentenced-prison-oil-spill-fraud-conspiracy

Forbes article discussing the case and sentence
Link to: https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2015/02/06/federal-sentencing-guidelines-mean-lengthy-prison-term-in-false-bp-spill-claim/

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