Board of Directors

Jeff Canclini

North Texas Chapter
Retired

• SFTE Director/Treasurer 2016-2024
• SFTE Fellow
• Lockheed Martin FTE Tech Fellow (ret)
• 41 Years T&E (Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, USAF, NASA)
• F-35 International Flight Ops Manager and Mission Systems FTE Lead
• F-16 Flight Test WSO
• FTE on F-16, A-12, EC-18B programs
• USAF TPS Distinguished Graduate (R. L. Jones Recipient)
• ME and BS UC Davis, Mech Engineering
• BA UC Davis, Economics
• Automated Test Engineer USAF Air Logistics Command
• NASA Convair 990 Test Mod Engineer
• FTRT (Flight Test Reporting & Tracking) App Creator
• 2-Tour NAVAIR Reserve CO (Boeing St Louis & NAWC China Lake)
• F-14 NFO, F-4 WSO
• Commercial Pilot MEL
• 3,300 hours in 27 fixed and rotary-wing aircraft

Ben Povall

Wichita Chapter
Bombardier

• MEng from University of Liverpool
• International Board Secretary and Membership Committee Chair 2022-24
• Secretary / Treasurer for Wichita Chapter 2018-22
• Member of Website Committee responsible for website overhaul 2020-22
• Presently Chief Flight Test Engineer and Flight Test Manager for Global 8000 at Bombardier Flight Test Center
• Lead FTE during C-Series, Global 7500 programs, and lead for Global 8000
• Test Conductor & Test Director for F-35 ITF Flight Sciences testing at Pax River
• FTE for Nimrod MRA4,Harrier GR9 and Typhoon test programs based at Warton, UK

Terence "Tazz" Martin

North Texas Chapter
E'talon Fit, LLC

• Member, North Texas Chapter since 1996.
• Canvas Inc, USAF 780TS, Senior Test and Evaluation Engineer, F-16, F-15, F-18
• E’talon Fit LLC, Owner/Manager, Flight Test Engineering training consultant to Quest Defense Systems
• American Airlines, Flight Crew Training Instructor on the 737-800 and 737 MAX aircraft
• L3 Harris Waco, Manager Flight Test Engineering.
• US Navy Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer, (Commander, Ret) Operations, Maintenance, Training and Flight Test, C-9, C-40A, F-18, C-130, MQ-4C.
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Manager, Flight Test Engineering, Flight Test Instrumentation, Telemetry Operations and Data Processing, F-16, F-35, 737 CATB
• Lockheed Martin, Lead Flight Test Engineer, F-35 JSF/Integrated Subsystems Technology demonstration aircraft
• Senior Engineer LTV Aircraft Modernization & Support flight testing USAF YA-7+ Strike-fighter aircraft
• SFTE Senior Member. Past Vice President North Texas Chapter. Best of Session paper Symposium 2001
• MS Southern Methodist
• BS University of Louisiana
• University of Kansas Flight Test Engineers Course
• National Test Pilot School, Short course OT&E and FAA Part 23/25 civil certification
• Commercial Pilot, fixed wing and rotary wing operations

Kevin Welch

Seattle Chapter
Boeing

• SFTE Board of Directors 2020-present
• SFTE Vice President 2018-2020
• SFTE Board of Directors 2016-2018
• SFTE Website Committee Chairman
• Test Director, Test Engineer, FTE
• Major test programs: 747-8, 767-2C, 787-9, 737 MAX, 777-9
• SFTE International Symposium Planning Committee, 2024
• Event Chairman, Seattle SFTE 50th Anniversary Celebration, 2018
• BS Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2003
• MBA, Seattle University, 2009

Jennifer Uchida

• B.S. and M.S. from University of Colorado in Aerospace Engineering
• NAVAIR as a civilian flight test engineer for the Marine Corps in Patuxent River, MD
• Supported experimental flight testing of the V-22 Osprey and CH-53K
• Attended USN TPS Class 140 in 2011. Logged 100 flight hours of special crew time over 16 different types of military aircraft
• One of the top 50 selected for NASA's Astronaut Program in 2013
• Flight Test Coordinator for Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation  for the G500 and G600 FAA certification efforts
• Founding president of the SFTE Coastal Empire Chapter
• Chief Systems Engineer for the RQ-21A Blackjack program at Insitu, Inc.
• Manager of Test and Evaluation at AeroTEC
  
• Member of the External Advisory Board for the University of Colorado's Aerospace Department
• Brooke Owens Executive Mentor
• SFTE Vice President 2020-2022
• Currently the senior Test Program Manager for Product Development for Boeing Test & Evaluation

Rachel McFalls-Brown

Antelope Valley Chapter
USAF

• Board of Directors, Chapter Liaison, SFTE 2022-Present
• F-22 Flight Test Engineer at 411FLTS at Edwards AFB, CA
• Civilian Flight Test Engineer at 40FLTS at Eglin AFB, FL
• Supported developmental flight testing of the A-10, F-16, & F-15C/E and targeting pod integration
• Secretary of Emerald Coast Chapter, SFTE
• Lead Aerospace Engineer for Air Force Subscale Aerial Targets Program Office, lead major modification technical evaluation
• USAF S&E Career Field Team 2024-Present
• Hosted 2017 SFTE Symposium in Destin, FL
• Board of Directors, Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity 2012-2014, 2018-2021
• B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2014
• M.S., Aerospace Engineering with Engineering Education, Mississippi State University, 2016

Tiziano Bernard

Coastal Empire Chapter
Gulfstream

• Experimental Flight Test Engineer, Gulfstream Aerospace
• Adjunct Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• FAA Gold Seal Certified Flight Instructor, Savannah Aviation (1600+ hrs)
• Aviation Systems & Human Factors Engineer, Garmin International
  
• Flight Test Engineer, Human-Centered Design Institute
• SFTE Board of Directors (2022-present)
• Scientific Advisory Board, Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Fellow, European Academy for Economic and Cultural Relations
• Ph.D. Human-Centered Design, M.S. Flight Test Engineering, Florida Tech
• Forbes Italy 100 under 30
• Garmin Innovation Award
• Officer, Order of Merit of the Royal House of Italy

Robert Brock

North Texas Chapter
FAA

• B.S. from University of Texas at Arlington in Aerospace Engineering
• Chair of 2016 Symposium in Wichita
• SFTE member since 2003
• North Texas Chapter Treasurer, 2020 – present
• US Army OTSA Helicopter Flight Test Exploitation
• Flight Test Performance supporting all Cessna Caravan and business jet models from Citation I through Citation Sovereign and Lead Flight Test Engineer on Cessna Mustang.
• Lead Flight Test Coordinator for Eclipse 500.
• Lead Flight Test Coordinator for Hondajet.
• Flight Test Engineering Group Lead at Bombardier Flight Test Center covering all Bombardier & Learjet models.
• Flight Test Coordinator for Gulfstream 500/600.
• Flight Test Engineer for FAA covering Part 23/25/27/29 and UAS.

Jesus Javier Fernandez Orio

European Chapter
INTA

• INTA National Institute for Aerospace Technology. Spanish MoD.
• Project Engineer at Energy and Environment Department since September 2020.
• Head of Military Transport Aircraft Section, Certification Department, From 2009 till September 2020.
• FTE at INTA 1991 - 2009. working in EF2000 and military Transport Aircraft.
• SFTE member since 2005
• European Chapter President 2015 - 19
• Aeronautic Engineer by Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• FTE at INTA 1991 – 2009. Involved in EF2000 and Military Transport Aircraft.
• Since 2004, a member of FT3 (Flight Test Technical Team) from STO in NATO