Board of Directors

The 2022-24 Board of Directors

Past Boards of Directors


President

Jennifer Uchida

Jennifer Uchida

Seattle Chapter


  • 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


Chat with Jen!

Join me for March President's Office Hours on Friday, March 15 at 1500 UTC (8am Pacific) where we'll talk about the process of applying for the NASA astronaut program!

(All views are my own and based on my personal experience going through the application process over a decade ago)


Vice President

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.

Treasurer

Jeff Canclini

North Texas Chapter

  • Member, North Texas Chapter
  • SFTE Fellow; SFTE Board of Directors 2016-present, Treasurer 2018-present
  • Graduate USAF TPS. Recipient of R.L. Jones award, Class 86A 
  • Lockheed Martin FTE Tech Fellow (Emeritus)
  • 41 years in T&E for Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, USAF, NASA Ames in
  • F-35, F-16, A-12, EC-18B, Convair 990 as
  • Flight Ops Manager, FTE, WSO, Design Engineer 
  • 2 Term Commanding Officer NAVAIR Reserves (China Lake & Boeing St. Louis)
  • F-16 WSO, F-14 RIO, F-4 WSO
  • Commercial Pilot MEL, 
  • Author of 11 Technical Papers/Presentations
  • 3,300 hours in 26 fixed and rotary wing aircraft

Secretary

Ben Povall

Ben Povall

Wichita Chapter

Bombardier

  • MEng from University of Liverpool
  • Secretary / Treasurer for Wichita Chapter 2018-22
  • Member of Website Committee responsible for website overhaul 2020-22
  • Presently Chief Flight Test Engineer 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


Past President



Mark Mondt

Ben Povall

Coastal Empire Chapter

  • B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and M.S. in Engineering Management, both from Wichita State University
  • FAA Consultant DER Flight Analyst
  • Chair of 2018 Savannah Symposium
  • Technical chair of 2016 Wichita Symposium
  • Secretary, SFTE Board of Directors, 2010-2012 and 2014-2016
  • Vice President, SFTE Board of Directors, 2012-2014
  • Wichita Chapter President, 2008-2010
  • Logistics chair, 2004 Wichita Symposium
  • Member since 2003
  • Remotely-piloted Cessna 208B (Reliable Robotics)
  • G500/600 Initial Type Certification, EFVS to Land (all models in production), G650&G500 Category II ILS (Gulfstream )
  • Learjet 85 and Global G5000/6000 Avionics Update (RC ProLine Fusion) (Bombardier)
  • E-6B MDS/ADWS, International Head-of-State conversions, 767 Tanker (GTTA, predecessor to KC-46) and Dutch Air Force (K)DC-10 Upgrade (Boeing)
  • Licensed private pilot (SEL) since 1998 and a registered professional engineer (KS) since 2001


At-Large Directors


Tiziano Bernard

Tiziano Bernard

Coastal Empire Chapter

Gulfstream

  • B.S. Aerospace Engineering (2015), M.S. Flight Test Engineering (2016), Ph.D. Human-Centered Design (2018), Florida Tech
  • Flight Test Engineer at Human-Centered Design Institute (HCDi)
  • Researcher for cognitive modeling flight test methods at HCDi
  • Aviation Systems & Human Factors Engineer at Garmin International
  • Experimental Flight Test Engineer at Gulfstream Aerospace (GVII-GVIII)
  • FAA instrument - rated pilot (Florida Tech / Garmin trained)
  • FAA instrument ground instructor
  • Garmin Innovation Award (2019)
  • Order of Merit of the Royal House of Savoy (2019)
  • FORBES Italy 100 under 30 (2019)
  • SFTE Best Paper Award (2020)
  • Top 5% ESA Astronaut Candidate (2021)
  • AIAA Senior Member

Jesus Javier Fernandez Orio

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

Kevin Welch

Seattle Chapter

Boeing

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

Rachel McFalls-Brown

Rachel McFalls-Brown

Antelope Valley Chapter

USAF

  • B.S. and M.S. from Mississippi State University in Aerospace Engineering
  • 40FLTS as a civilian flight test engineer for the US Air Force in Eglin AFB, FL.
  • Supported developmental flight testing of the A-10, F-16, & F-15E
  • Secretary of Emerald Coast Chapter, SFTE.
  • Lead Aerospace Engineer for Air Force Subscale Aerial Targets Program Office, lead major modification technical evaluation. 
  • F-22 Flight Test Engineer at 411FLTS at Edwards AFB
  • Hosted 2017 SFTE Symposium in Destin, FL
  • Board of Directors, Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity