'napkin sketches welcome'

About Us
Vintana Engineering is a design firm that caters to entrepreneurs in the medical device field. We specialize in the design and fabrication of prototypes and can quickly turn your concept into a reality.
Perform a web search and you'll find a lot of companies that claim that they do prototyping or product development but give those same companies a call and you'll soon discover how hard it is to get any traction with your idea. And even when you do, you'll find that they're not too eager to work from your napkin sketch.
Instead, they typically expect you to have an engineering print ready to send them for quoting. Engineering print? That's why you're calling them! The reality is, most contract vendors are in the business to service production accounts. Despite their claims, prototyping and developing new concepts is a service that they'd rather not offer.
Your other alternatives are starting a brick-and-mortar company and hiring an engineer, or trying to find a consultant to work with. But these options have their shortcomings as the majority of the fabrication is still farmed out to external vendors. This approach is inherently inefficient (i.e. time consuming) and it can be very challenging to effectively coordinate and integrate the efforts of several vendors that work independent of each other.
This is where Vintana Engineering comes in. Founded by Maurice de la Rosa, an 18 year veteran of the medical device industry, VE actually prefers to work on new concepts. Working from a well-equipped lab, VE offers a full range of in-house fabricating capabilities that were chosen specifically for their high value impact in streamlining the development process.
These in-house capabilities allow VE to execute multiple tweaks or iterations to a design in the same time it would take a consultant to receive components from multiple vendors and fabricate a single prototype. The few operations that VE can't fabricate in-house are handled through carefully chosen vendors vetted through years of working experience.
And this is what sets VE apart from its competitors. We're a company staffed by a medical device professional who's eager to work with visionary clients and we have a passion for developing novel therapies to address unmet clinical needs. Combined with our unique facility, we are able to fabricate a working prototype in the shortest time possible.
Give us a call or send us an email to set up a phone consultation. Vintana Engineering - napkin sketches welcome

Maurice de la Rosa, Principal
maurice@vintana-engineering.com | Phone: 707-291-9974
Maurice de la Rosa has worked in the medical device field for over 18 years, at companies such as St. Jude Medical, Perclose (acquired by Abbott), and TriVascular (acquired by Boston Scientific). He has spent the majority of that time in R&D and product development, working on teams tasked with rapid development cycles, designing devices and therapies for the endovascular market.
After spending the first half of his career working at medical device companies, Maurice joined Relucent Solutions, a startup in the contract manufacturing field serving the medical device industry. This experience rounded out Maurice's career experience by giving him exposure to both the innovation and development side of the business as well as the manufacturing side. It is this unique career path that led him to found Vintana Engineering to service what he felt was an unmet need: a company offering the design services of an experienced medical device engineer supported by a facility offering full service fabrication capabilities.
He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo, and is named on 27 issued and pending patents related to designs and innovations in the medical device field.