2005-2006 Liquid Breaker LLC
San Diego, California,
USA
Mechanical Engineer
(Remotely: Toronto, ON)

• Current design assessment; subsequent redesign to improve size, function and cost
• Electrical/mechanical specifications for design application and components
• Machining specifications / drawings
• System calculations for appropriate function
• Fluid mechanics and hydraulic systems
• RFQ production, prototype management, component sourcing

2004-2008 Bioengineering Center , “Jos’e Antonio Echeverria” (ISPJAE) Technical University
Havana, Cuba
Research and Publication Support (Pro-Bono)
(Remotely: Toronto, ON)

• Application Service Provider (ASP) for Clinical Maintenance Management Systems ON)
• Fuzzy inference system for contract service provider performance evaluations
• Review of international health care facility and medical device regulatory agencies
• Data mining and knowledge discovery inside data set (medical equipment maintenance)

2002-2003 Curriculum Edge
Tutor (sub-contract full-time basis)
Toronto, ON

• Private instruction in all high school levels in:
• Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics
• Assessing student’s individual challenges
• Addressing specific obstacles with appropriate learning strategies.

1999-2002 Biokinetics and Associates Ltd
Ottawa, ON
Biomechanical Engineering Research and Marketing

• Sales ($220,000 USD contract to FIFA)
• Marketing channel management (process flow diagrams, proposals, advertisements, brochures, website content)
• Business development and inter-company/organization liaison
• Managed ongoing relationships with FIFA, NHL, CSA (Soccer)
• Brand building of ITS-3 (Integrated Tactical Suit –3)
• NFL Mild Traumatic Brain Injury / event reconstruction
• Hybrid III anthropometric head-form instrumentation and testing
• Literature research for traumatic brain injury
• (mild and chronic, acquired and maintained 150 paper database)
• Football helmet design team/performance assessment
• Experimental test rig design and build
• Data acquisition, documentation and analysis (data flow diagram GUI for NI DAQ)
• Digital video capture and analysis
• Defense research for blast related, non fragment body trauma for Department of Defense

EDUCATION

1999 B. Eng. Mechanical Engineering Carleton University
Ottawa,ON, Canada

2000 Rand 40 hours PRO/E (CAD) training

UNIVERSITY INVOLVEMENT

• 1994-98 Carleton University Men’s
• Varsity Soccer Team Captain ‘98; OUAA All-star ‘96
• 1995-99 SP Sigma Pi Fraternity, HR Chapter, Philanthropy
• 1995-95 Residence Fellow, Dept. of Housing and Food Services
• 1996-97 Vice President, Rideau River Residence Association, Inc.

PUBLICATIONS

Cruz, A.M., Barr, C., Rodriguez, D.E., “A New Method Based on Fuzzy-Logic to Evaluate the Contract Service Provider Performance”, submitted for review to IEEE, Engineering In Medicine and Biology, Dec. 2005.

Cruz, A.M., Barr, C., Rodriguez, D.E., “Application Service Provider: A Solution for Integrating Medical Equipment Management”, accepted by AAMI, Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, June 2005.

Cruz, A.M., Barr, C., Puñales E. Pozo “Increasing The Corrective Maintenance Efficiency using Multiple Linear Regression and Clustering Techniques.”, submitted to for review IEEE February 2006.

Newman, J.A., Shewchenko, N., Beusenberg, M.C., Fournier, E., Withnall, C., Barr, C., “Verification of
Biomechanical Methods Employed in a Comprehensive Study of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the
Effectiveness of American Football Helmets”, submitted to the Journal of Biomechanics, currently under review, 2002.

Barr, C., Beusenberg, M., “Probability of Concussion from a Single Heading Event in Football (Soccer)”, IIHFIOC-FIFA International Symposium on Concussion in Sport, Vienna, November 2-3, 2001. British Journal of Sports Medicine, Feb. 2002.

Shewchenko, N., Newman, J., Barr, C., “The Biomechanical Assessment of Concussion in Sports”,
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mechanics of Human Movement and Biomaterials”, Ottawa,
Ontario, August 5-7, 2001.

Beusenberg, M., Barr, C., Shewchenko, N., Newman, J., “Applying the Concept of the Power Index to the
Prevention of Concussion in Sports and the Improvement of Headgear”. Paper No. 0824, XVIIIth Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics Conference Book of Abstracts, Zurich, Switzerland, July, 2001.

Beusenberg, M., Barr, C., “Measuring Concussion in Sports Through the Application of Biomechanics”
Proceedings of FIFA Sports Medical Congress; Zürich, Switzerland, November 10-11, 2000;

Newman, J.A., Barr, C., Beusenberg, M., Fournier, E., Shewchenko, N., Welbourne, E., Withnall, C., “A New Biomechanical Assessment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury – Part 2 – Results and Conclusions”. Proceedings of the International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, Montpellier, France, September 20-22, 2000.