Chris McCoy
Chris McCoy
Chief Information Officer
Director, UNT System IT Shared Services
As CIO for the UNT System and UNT campus, Chris provides information technology leadership and governance, ensuring that short- and long-term budgets are executed as intended. Chris implemented a system-wide consolidated IT strategic plan, creating decision-making structures, and setting priorities that focused on establishing a high-performance, customer-centric IT service organization.
Larry Mendez
Larry Mendez
Chief Technology Officer, UNT System
Larry and his team manage data and voice communications networks, central web services and web servers, content management systems, directory services, and data storage and backup. Larry also oversees asset management, data center operations, and end-user support through help desks.
Charlotte Russell
Charlotte Russell
Chief Information Security Officer
Senior Director, Management and Risk Services
Charlotte manages enterprise IT policy and strategic planning, risk assessment, information security management programs, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, vendor and contract management services, communications, marketing, and professional development services, software licensing, information services and resource support, accessibility programs, and State of Texas initiative analysis and reporting.
Bharath Prabhakaran
Bharath Prabhakaran
Senior Application Development Director
Bharath directs the development, support, and maintenance of UNT System shared software applications including PeopleSoft's enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite, the Learning Management System, the ImageNow document imaging and management system, and two dozen applications. The PeopleSoft applications include the Student Information System, human resources, payroll, financials, grants management, Constituent Relationship Management (CRM), and the student and employee portals.
Ravi Vadapalli
Ravi Vadapalli, Ph.D.
Senior Director, North Texas Scientific Computing
Ravi provides leadership in securing and managing sustainable scientific computing and analytics capabilities for research and training across UNT and UNT System. He assists the CIO in strategic planning, budgeting, and data governance for sustainable scientific computing and innovation. Dr. Vadapalli also serves as the strategic-initiatives coordinator for the Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing Center (CAAAM), and as an affiliate site director for the NSF IUCRC Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center site at UNT. He is passionate about fostering interdisciplinary research and grant collaborations, industry-research partnerships, and future workforce training opportunities through scientific computing and analytics.
Stephanie McCane
Stephanie McCane
Business Director, UNT System IT Shared Services
Stephanie supports annual budget preparation along with development, monitoring, management, and reporting requirements for central enterprise computing services. This provides employee services, including payroll, timekeeping, employee reviews, and ITSS employment services. Stephanie and her division coordinate purchasing services for hardware, software, and services and maintain all maintenance contracts. ITBS monitors vendor and interagency contracts, and reviews and approves purchases. ITBS also provides executive support in the form of emails, schedules, and appointments.