Partner, Chin and Hensolt, Engineers, San Francisco, CA; this firm was the largest structural engineering company in San Francisco in the later 1950s and 1960s. It was responsible for several landmarks, including Candlestick Park, San Francisco, (1958-1960) and the Transamerica Building, San Francisco, (1972).

B.S., General Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1944;

P.Q. Chin's father immigrated to the US during the 1920s from Southern China. He came to own several pawn shops in the Chinatown Neighborhood of San Francisco, CA.

P.Q. married his wife June c. 1950.

P.Q. and June had two children, Laura Chin Kirley and Susan Chin Uehara;

Poo Quong Chin was known professionally as "P.Q."