Torsten Kimura

Operations

Menlo Park, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Endovascular Engineering (4 yrs 7 mos)
    • VP of Manufacturing Operations
      Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Sr. Director of Operations
      Dec 2021 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Earlens Corporation (7 yrs 9 mos)
    • Director of Manufacturing Engineering
      Jul 2015 - Dec 2021 · 6 yrs 6 mos

    • Principle Manufacturing Engineer
      Apr 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Manufacturing and Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Arstasis
    May 2009 - Apr 2014 · 5 yrs

  • XTENT, Inc. (4 yrs)
    • Manufacturing Engineering Manager
      Oct 2008 - Mar 2009 · 6 mos

    • Principle Manufacturing Engineer
      Apr 2005 - Oct 2008 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Advanced Manufacturing focusing on the coating process of coronary stents

  • Abbott Vascular Devices (5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Technical Project Lead
      Oct 2000 - May 2005 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Worked in Advanced Manufacturing. Was the key manufacturing resource in 5 medical device projects: Heartflo (a coronary anastimosis device), Perclose AT (cardiovascular vessel closure), Xceed (self-expanding stent system), Xceed LE (extra long self-expanding stent), and Xceed 2 (self-expanding stent with radio-opaque markers).

    • Sr Mfg Engr
      2000 - 2005 · 5 yrs