Chinh Tan

Fellow of Technical Staff at Zebra Technologies, previously Motorola Enterprise Solutions

Holtsville, New York, United States

About

Technical Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the optical engineering industry. Strong professional skilled in Optics, Lasers, Product Development, Systems Engineering, Modeling and Testing. Hold close to 100 US and international patents.

Experience

  • Fellow, Technical Staff at Zebra Technologies
    Mar 1992 - Present · 34 yrs 5 mos

    Valuable player to your team, reliable, resilient, resourceful, relational. Lead optical system engineering, from R&D, technology inception to product realization of many first-in-class barcode scanners and laser projection display. Hold close to 100 patents in the fields of laser, optics, MEMS systems, laser and imaging based barcode readers.

  • Member of Technical Staff at MITRE
    1989 - 1992 · 3 yrs

    Investigated novel technologies related to free-space and fiber optical communications: including liquid crystal and diffractive optics. Miniaturized optical transceivers to reduce payload. Designed a 4-inch telescope optical transceiver front end for free-space optical communications. Designed instrumentation for WDM system testing.

  • Electro-Optic Engineer at Litton - Itek Optical Systems
    1988 - 1989 · 1 yr

    Evaluated visible and SWIR CCDs and drive technologies for aerial surveillance and space applications.