William J. McCollough

Chief Executive Officer

As the Founder, Chief Scientist and Principal of CPS Healthcare, Mr. McCollough has nearly 20 years of real-world/hands-on experience in the diagnostic medical imaging and the PACS industry. Mr. McCollough’s experience and expertise in the medical imaging and PACS industry, enables him to architect enterprise imaging solutions, provide overall project development, management assistance and direction, develop appropriate diagnostic supporting imaging storage and distribution backbones, and deploy and support mission critical operational medical imaging systems. Mr. McCollough is well-versed in the pitfalls of PACS technology, its implementation, and use. Additionally, Mr. McCollough has experience in the web distribution of DICOM images and was the founder of Sirius Corporation – one of the first companies to use the Internet for the enterprise sharing of multimodality, diagnostic medical imagery. Mr. McCollough holds a patent in image understanding, is a licensed Professional Engineer, former Air Force Officer, and holds a graduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Michael J. Luby

Chief Operating Officer

As the Chief Operating Officer, Director of Operations and Principal of CPS Healthcare, Mr. Luby has over 27 years of progressive information systems management experience focusing on both technical and program management of large-scale systems development and life-cycle activities for Federal, State and International Government agencies. Mr. Luby has over 20 years of experience in the design, implementation and integration of automated records management, document imaging and workflow systems. Since 1998 he has provided senior level technical management of healthcare integration frameworks, open distributed systems, and Web/Internet-based mission critical systems design and development, document management, digital imaging technologies and process re-engineering concepts for healthcare systems and applications. Mr. Luby has been a member of HIMSS and HL7 for 6 years and a frequent faculty member at HIMSS and Medical Record Institute proceedings. Mr. Luby holds a graduate degree in Computer Systems Management from the University of Maryland.

John R. Leslie

Chief Technology Officer 

As the the Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice President and Principal of CPS Healthcare, Mr. Leslie has over 20 years of Healthcare IT experience in a wide array of healthcare information technology applications. Prior to joining CPS Healthcare, Mr. Leslie was director of technology for the Northrop Grumman Health Solutions Sector. He was instrumental as the Chief Architect for many federal government initiatives while at Northrop Grumman including: Bi-directional Health Information Exchange (BHIE), Federal Health Information Exchange (FHIE), and Government Computer-based Patient Record (GCPR). Before Mr. Leslie’s government health IT engagements, he worked for over fifteen years in the private healthcare sector on several commercially marketed products. Mr. Leslie brings a commercial, private, and government public perspective to his role at CPS Healthcare. He continues his long standing active participation with standards development organizations (SDO) such as Health Level 7 (HL7), Object Management Group (OMG), DICOM and has worked with many of the healthcare ontology and terminology groups. Mr. Leslie is a Certified Enterprise Architect with extensive real world experience.