Lester McCoy-Raytheon

Dr. Lester McCoy began his career at Raytheon in January 2011. He completed his BS in Aerospace Engineering at MIT in 2003, recieved his MS in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University in 2006, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering specializing in control systems and robotics from Boston University in Jan 2011.

Lester is a Senior Systems Engineer who has supported integration, test, modeling and analysis for Air and Missile Defense Programs. He is currently a hardware in the loop facilty moderization and upgrades lead, and leads a team of engineers responsible for facilty rearchitecture, design, integration, verification and validation. In the past year, Lester has also served a field test execution lead and flight test lead for various domestic and international events.

Lester is a member of the Raytheon Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) Class of 2015. In 2014, Lester was also selected as the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) STEM – Most Promising Engineer Award which took place in Washington, DC.

He is a regular contributor to both internal and external industry conferences and symposia. He is a member of the IEEE and the co-author of an IEEE conference paper on the control of rigid autonomous vehicle formations, and a National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Aerospace Systems Conference track chair and author. Lester has also co-authored and presented multiple papers to internal Raytheon Conferences in the areas of flight tests, structural analysis, and system performance parameter evaluation.

 Lester is very active within the community. He is a mentors students as part of the Raytheon Stand and Deliver tutoring program, is the Professional Development Lead for the Raytheon Black Employee Network (RayBEN) – New England, has has served as the Papers and Patents Rotational Program Manager (RPM), and R6Sigma RPM for the Air Defense Systems (ADS) Department. Outside of work Lester is a black belt jiu-jitsu instructor at MIT.