IT Leadership Team

Lee Leiber, MS, MBA is the Chief Information Officer for UMass Chan Medical School. He earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, a Master of Science in Information Systems Technology from George Washington University, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He has prior experience as a researcher in applied science and engineering, and significant IT experience in the non-profit, healthcare, and education sectors.

Abhi Yalamanchili is a strategic IT leader with close to 20 years of experience across higher education, manufacturing, finance, and publishing industries. At UMass Chan Medical School, she leads cross-functional teams in delivering scalable, compliant enterprise systems that advance academic initiatives and contribute to institutional growth.

Recognized with the Chancellor’s Award for advancing the UMass Chan mission, Abhi is known for her customer-focused approach, strong governance, and ability to drive technology innovation and operational excellence. She holds a Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Science and is passionate about building partnerships and embracing change to foster organizational success. 

Outside of work, Abhi enjoys hiking and spending time with her family.

Brad is an accomplished IT leader who has been working in technology for 25+ years. He has a passion for building and implementing solutions that drive business transformation and enable productivity and innovation. He has held a multitude of IT leadership roles throughout his career, directing IT Strategy across organizations large and small with experience in software, biotech, financial services, and retail.  

Brad joined UMass Chan in February of 2022, leading Infrastructure Engineering and Operations, focused on optimizing technological transformation for customers and providing the highest level of solutions and services to the University. He is thrilled to be surrounded by so many talented individuals who share the same passion for technology to solve complex business problems in support of the betterment of Healthcare and Higher Education.  

When not working, Brad can be found making trips to the mountains in the winter months or planning his next round of golf on warm summer days.

Chris has over 12 years of software engineering experiences in a range of industries including manufacturing, insurance, government contracting, home appraisal, and health sciences. In Chris’s career he has been involved in producing and managing the production of enterprise solutions for multiple industries. He has consistently demonstrated the ability to lead and achieve goals set for himself and by others. He strives to explore the latest that technology has to offer with a focus on machine learning.

 Chris joined the IT Leadership Team in January of 2017. His focus is to help medical school staff with their engineering needs through advanced technology solutions ranging from mobile development and HoloLens to responsive web applications and CMS systems.

Outside the office and technology Chris is family focused with his wife and two kids. In his spare time, he also enjoys endurance athletics.

James McNamara is the Director of Student Applications within Academic Technology at UMass Chan Medical School. He brings more than 20 years of experience leading technology teams and enterprise transformation initiatives across higher education, consulting, defense, and complex operational environments.

Prior to joining UMass Chan, James served as Director of Enterprise Application Services at the University of Rhode Island, where he led teams responsible for PeopleSoft, enterprise applications, integrations, and systems supporting students, faculty, staff, and administrative operations. He has also held leadership roles at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Deloitte Consulting, and Unisys.

James is focused on building strong partnerships, supporting effective teams, and aligning technology solutions with institutional priorities.

Deborah joined UMass Chan in 2001 managing a portfolio of 40+ IT solutions involving life safety systems, access control and video management, integrated workplace management, asset and inventory control, property risk management, emergency notification, and business intelligence, including the development of PeopleCube, an administrative data lake. 

Deborah’s more recent work has been to provide leadership in defining, forming, and guiding a new Enterprise IT Delivery (EITD) team responsible for implementing large, enterprise-wide technology solutions and selected intra-departmental projects. In addition, Deborah is the Program manager for several foundational services like Identity Management and Office365 migration/collaboration.

Deborah believes in the value of the team. Building a team that is more than just a collection of people.  Providing coaching and mentoring them as individuals to create a synergy and mutual commitment. She says “It’s great being part of a team! It makes even the craziest of days fun! I truly enjoy the people I work with.”

Jenene is a scholar-practitioner of online education, academic, and instructional technology. With over 20 years of experience in this area, she has successfully led teams of instructional designers and technologists that focus on enhance teaching effectiveness and learning environments with technology, online course design and development, academic technology, and the assessment of online courses and programs. She is also very interested in learning science and faculty development that assists instructors to use research-based principles when using technology for teaching and learning.

Before joining the Academic Technology team at UMass Chan Medical School, Jenene was the Associate Director for Learning Innovation with Technology at Suffolk University where she led efforts to support, maintain, and improve the learning management system and other academic technology tools that contributed to innovative teaching and learning. Jenene also designed and delivered faculty educational development opportunities on inclusive pedagogy, diversity, and equity in the classroom, effective uses of technology, continuity of learning plans, and online course design.

Jenene received her Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Massachusetts Boston (2019) where her research focused on factors that lead community college faculty to adopt or reject innovative online pedagogy.

Outside of work Jenene participates in social justice activities particularly around ending racism and climate justice. She also enjoys riding scooters, playing volleyball, swimming, dancing, biking, gardening, cooking, and attending visual art events.

Brian’s path in software engineering began in high school with a programming class in QBasic. Brian continued to develop his skills in computer science through a well-rounded curriculum at St. Bonaventure University, exploring areas in application development, networking, databases, and robotics. Brian’s career since then has been as a full-stack software engineer for various industries, integrating systems to share information, creating backend systems to manage and report on information, and developing front-end interfaces to display this information in a responsive way.

Brian joined UMass Chan Medical School in 2018 as a member of the DivisionByZero team, which develops and supports applications that assist in the operations of the university while exploring new technology and how it can benefit IT’s products and service offerings. As a manager of software engineering, Brian also looks to provide solutions to the needs of the university through existing applications and services or custom-built applications that provide a high return value for the medical school.

When not behind a screen, Brian enjoys his time outside whether it is out on a run, relaxing by a campfire, sunning at the beach in the summer, or hitting the ski slopes in the winter.

Andy joined UMass Chan Medical School as the Manager of Hosted Services in 2017.  He has 20-years of experience working with Information Technology infrastructure across various industries.  Andy brings a customer-focused approach and strongly believes in IT is a service organization.

Andy has been successful leading teams to build, deploy, and maintain stable and secure infrastructure solutions.  He is hands on with a wide range of technology which helps build a big picture view of how all infrastructure fits together to form the IT foundation for an organization.

Andy loves enjoying time with his family, camping, and learning about new technology.

Vivek Joined UMass Chan IT in 2014 as a Manager, DevOps. He has over 23 years of IT (software Development, Quality Assurance and DevOps) experience in manufacturing, sales, infrastructure management, E-learning and health care domain. With his experience and knowledge, he provides customer satisfaction, by directing the team in proper planning, implementing and collaborating. He strongly believes in agile principles and is certified Scrum Master.

As Manager of DevOps, Vivek focus is to fill in the gaps between functions, listen to the ideas and concerns of peers, and seek ways to improve DevOps processes, empower DevOps engineers and unify DevOps across the teams/locations and take continuous integration and system operations to the next level.

Outside of work Vivek loves to spend time with his wife and daughter, watching movies/thriller drama.

Matt Tracy is the manager of Audio Visual Services at UMass Chan Medical School. Throughout his 20+ year career, he has supported customers with AV technology in a variety of capacities. Matt spent 10 years working and managing the technical side of meetings and events for several 4 /5 star hotels in the state of Florida and the city of Boston. Matt joined the medical school in 2013 as an Audio Visual Engineer. Since then, he has modified and updated technology throughout campus to meet the changing and expanding needs of the medical school. He strives to create high tech rooms that are easy to use so customers can deliver their message and collaborate seamlessly. The audio visual department aims to provide technical support for meetings/classes/events, end user training to empower customers on their own, and audio visual consultation services for the campus at large. 

Matt holds an Associates in Recording Arts and Bachelors in Entertainment Business.

Jack Cleary is a dynamic leader at the forefront of UMass Chan Medical School’s Help Desk. With over 15 years of experience in technical support and customer service, Jack's true passion lies in fostering a culture of excellence and staff development. He believes in creating an environment where his staff can thrive through mentorship, open communication, and ongoing training. His leadership style promotes collaboration, innovative problem-solving, and a shared commitment to excellence, fostering a sense of purpose that permeates the Help Desk. 

Outside of work Jack enjoys playing disc golf, playing guitar, and spending time with his wife and two cats, Olive and Ted.

Carleen is the Manager of Information Security & Compliance for the UMass Chan Medical School.  Her role includes SOC 2 and other critical audit responsibilities, as well as risk management, data protection, OoM/Privacy liaison, policies and standards, and annual privacy and security training initiatives.   Carleen and her team prioritize tasks on compliance and security initiatives to help ensure regulatory requirements are completed and provide strategies for protecting data to UMass Chan employees and students. 

Carleen has over 25 years of experience in the security, compliance, risk, and leadership experience in a range of industries including Retail, Higher Education and Government.  She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional with experience in building out various programs for risk management, eDiscovery, forensic investigations, incident response and information security.

Carleen has many interests including, restoration of her historic house in Worcester, watching various sporting events - ice hockey, golf, and football and enjoys hiking with the family and hosting international high school students.