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Dr. McCoy was born and raised in the ���۴�ý area, entered the Army in 1983 at the age of 18, and served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, specializing in weapons systems on the Cobra and Apache helicopters. Upon leaving the military, he returned to the Southwest and spent the next 35 years in corporate America, including multiple C-suite positions and in management for a Fortune 500 company, retiring from corporate life in 2024.

He is a three-time alumnus of the ���۴�ý, earning his bachelor's in information technology on campus in Tucson in 2000, and later an MBA and DM degree online. He won the 2020 Dissertation of the Year for his quantitative path analysis study, focusing on the negative follower effects of transformational leadership. 

He began his second career as an instructor in higher education in 2021 at Southern New Hampshire University as an adjunct in the School of Business. He joined UOPX in 2024 as an adjunct in the College of Doctoral Studies, where he won the Faculty of the Year Award in 2025. In January 2025, he obtained a position as Staff Faculty and Dissertation Chair in CDS, where he currently serves.

Dr. McCoy is deeply passionate about connecting with students and assisting in the progression and development of the next generation of business leaders and scholars. He recently published an article focused on his dissertation topic with co-author Dr. Herman van Niekerk in the prestigious and international Journal of Leadership Studies. He is currently working on multiple additional articles focused on the leadership and management discipline, and concurrently finishing his first book on the principle of forgiveness.

He brings more than 25 years of experience in information systems design, implementation, and training to CEITR, and he continues to consult organizations in the implementation of ERP, BI, process automation, and audio-visual presentation systems. 

He currently resides with his wife in Goodyear, Arizona, near their two daughters and seven grandchildren.