1. PETER CUCCHIARA
11 Bridle Way, Pawling, NY 12564 | T: 845-593-3028 | M: 914-396-3621 | E: pjcucchiara@gmail.com
Senior level healthcare executive with the unique ability to harmonize ideas, technologies, business
philosophies and priorities into tangible business results. Years of industry experience in operations and
the development of products and services for both B2B and B2C, private and public organizations,
leveraging a keen business acumen that turns great ideas into strategic realities.
Accomplishment Highlights:
• Developed company strategy to launch fertility industry’s leading EMR system and persuaded
senior management to adopt it as second product line producing 100% of division revenue.
• Built infrastructure facilitating company growth 10X to $119 million in revenues maintaining
99.5% uptime commitment at 50% of standard expenditure rate.
• Grew software application into a fertility industry leader, reducing merger/acquisition time for
new partners by 50% and Information System’s implementation costs by 75%.
• Developed company strategy and delivered revenue producing consultancy as new business
division contributing to one-half of company revenues in two years.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Primary Care Development Corporation, New York, NY 2006 - Present
Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding and
transforming primary care in underserved communities to improve health outcomes, lower health costs
and reduce disparities.
Managing Director Performance Improvement Practice 2011 - Present
Led PCDC’s efforts to consolidate three separate divisions into a national, high value consultancy that
delivers performance improvement products and services to healthcare organizations nationwide.
Initiatives included: Integrated Delivery System Implementation, Community Integration, EHR,
Meaningful Use, Medical Home and other strategic executions of Health Information Technology (HIT) in
the achievement of primary care performance improvement and quality care. Developed and marketed
the practice’s line of comprehensive, integrated products and services.
• Negotiated consulting contracts and grants for PCDC Performance Improvement practice in
excess of $3 million annually.
• Created practice strategy, business plans as well as product and service development.
• Developed and deployed a portfolio of services integrating meaningful use and patient centered
medical home standards into a unified program and service model.
Director HIT Strategy and Consulting 2006 - 2011
Hired to develop HIT line of business for the emerging initiatives division of the company.
• Directed Technical Assistance and HIT initiatives for over 100 health centers in New York State
and nationally
• Created a five point HIT line of business designed to assist with: Selection, Readiness/
preparation, Implementation, Incorporation into operations, Data integrity and management
• Led selection purchase and auditing of technology for the NYCDOHMH PCIP program
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IntegraMed America, Purchase, NY 1995 – 2006
IntegraMed America, Inc. is a specialty healthcare services company that offers products and services to
medical providers and consumers within emerging, niche medical sectors such as the fertility care
medical sector.
Vice President & CIO, Information Systems 1998 – 2006
Promoted to advance the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Application Service Provider (ASP)
models as significant product and service components of a business growth strategy.
• Developed industry leading Electronic Medical Record and persuaded senior management to
adopt it as a second product line producing $400,000 in net revenues.
• First to successfully interface EMR to CDC submitting over 50,000 fertility cycles of data
electronically and error free saving a minimum of 1 FTE per practice per year.
• Migrated 50% of practices using EMR product to paperless operations representing 40% gain in
practice efficiency.
• Introduced and built consulting services around EMR product adding 25% more top line growth
from EMR product.
• Oversaw development and management of corporate and practice websites that increased
investor and patient revenue by 40% and provided additional marketing channel for company
products and services.
• Established formal operating policies, procedures, and security frameworks required to comply
with HIPAA, SOX, CLIA, CAP, and JCAHO (TJC), moving company to compliance lowering risk of
penalties.
Director, Information Systems 1994 – 1998
Recruited to develop and execute IT turnaround strategy, build infrastructure to support business
growth, and convert IT into a core competency enabling delivery of promised products and services.
• Built out infrastructure (2 data centers and networks) facilitating company growth 10X to $119
million in revenues maintaining 99.5% uptime commitment at 50% of standard expenditure
rate, servicing 1000 users in 50 locations across 8 states.
• Persuaded senior management to adopt new Application Service Provider (ASP) business model
for IT service delivery reducing partnership turnover to 0%.
• Persuaded Senior Management to adopt portfolio approach for applications development and
delivery resulting in a fertility industry based suite of applications including Patient Billing,
Clinical (EMR), HR, Sales & Marketing and web portals.
• Directed 100% turnover in IT staff absorbing 50% increase in workload and reducing service call
turnaround time from 3 days to 3 hours.
• Negotiated and managed outsource contracts reducing disaster recovery response times from
24 hours to 2 and increasing annual application releases from 1 to 4.
The Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY 1987 – 1994
Founded in 1863, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is the nation’s oldest orthopedic hospital, conducting
more than 29,000 surgical procedures are performed annually. HSS performs more hip surgeries and
more knee replacements than any other hospital in the nation.
Assistant Director, Information Systems 1991 - 1994
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Promoted to lead selection and implementation of a full portfolio of all departmental and enterprise
level information systems as well as to develop policy, procedures, safeguards and standards regarding
use of the newly implemented systems and their information.
• Led selection, certification, and implementation of hospitals first comprehensive information
system suite including; Admissions, Radiology, Materials Management, Public Relations, Risk
Management, Patient Scheduling, Operating Room, Laboratory, Human Resources and
Pharmacy Systems producing 25% efficiency gain.
Application and Technical Support Manager 1989 – 1991
Promoted to develop and implement specialty systems and applications throughout various divisions of
the hospital.
• Supervised design, development and delivery of infrastructure systems: project management,
help desk, staffing control, payroll timesheets, medical education residency candidate/
evaluation system, research-grants administration and system-to-system interfaces.
• Instituted PC procurement and installation program establishing hardware and software
standards, vendor consignment policies, hardware warehousing, repair and leasing yielding a
yearly savings of more than $200,000.
Assistant to the Director 1987 – 1989
Hired to build new hospital computer facility and assist with special technical and infrastructure related
projects designed to deploy and extend reach of technology to entire campus and staff.
• Planned and installed hospital computer facility and 300 node Metropolitan Area Network.
ImPrezzto – Presentations for Every Audience, Pawling NY 2006 – Present
ImPrezzto devotes its entire creative energies to developing, delivering, designing and teaching
presentations and presentation skills to executives, companies and anyone who wants an inspiring,
engaging, and appealing session suitable for any occasion or audience.
Principle and Owner 2006 – Present
Design, deliver, present, co-present and train executives, companies, trade groups, university graduate
students etc. in the arts of design and delivery of effective presentations for marketing, education and
conference purposes.
•Trained over 500 managers and executives in healthcare and education industries
•Won third prize in the 17th
annual healthcare advertising awards sponsored by Healthcare
Marketing Report for the marketing and presentations of the ARTWorks suite of fertility care
information systems
•Produced, presented or co-presented over 5,000 presentations
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Scholl of Management Newark, NJ 2008 – Present
The New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public research university in the University Heights
neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. NJIT is New Jersey's Science & Technology University.
Adjunct Professor Business and Technology Management
Teach undergraduate and graduate, MBA and EMBA level business management, organizational
behavior, strategic management, governance, and business innovation.
• Instructional Design, testing and delivery of content, presentations, video, syllabus, and graphic
design for on-line organizational behavior course.
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• Develop and deliver flagship MBA and EMBA courses in Business Innovation applying new and
innovative learning techniques and technologies.
• Continuously assist with design and delivery of colloquiums, seminars, and other forums for
educational and public outreach for the graduate school of management.
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
MBA, New Jersey Institute of Technology 2006 - 2008
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Administration/MIS, New Jersey Institute of Technology 1988 - 1995
CREDENTIALS
FEMA/Emergency Management Certifications in Incident Command Systems and National Incident
Management System IS-00200b, IS-00800.b, IS00-700.a
MEMBERSHIPS
• CHIME – College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
• HIMSS – Healthcare Information Management Systems Society
• ISACA – Information Systems Audit and Control Association
• TENG – Technical Executives Networking Group
Keywords
Strategic Planning, Business Development, Products and Services Development, Operations Development and Management, Operations Turnarounds & Troubleshooting, Application
Development and Implementation, Systems Design, HIT & Medical Informatics, Products and Services Marketing, Healthcare, Consulting, Managing Director, System Development, Information
Management , Information Management Systems, Systems Audit and Control Association, Networking, Industrial Administration/MIS, infrastructure systems, project management, help desk,
staffing control, medical evaluation systems, research-grants administration, technical support, technical assistance, Electronic Medical Record, EMR, CIO, Federally Qualified Health
Centers(FQHCs), Primary Care Practices, Community Health Centers , Non-Profits