.New Mexico has actually called Manny Barreras as the condition's brand new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This consultation comes after much more than a year where the message was kept through a behaving CIO. Barreras formerly functioned as Motorola Solutions' senior area profile supervisor for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While along with the business, Barreras was involved in getting an agreement to do a primary radio unit upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Information Technology-- the team he'll currently helm.Barreras' profession features more than twenty years in specialized sales, advertising monitoring and also social relationships. He possesses a Bachelor of Business Administration in advertising and marketing coming from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is an outstanding forerunner with a tested performance history in steering impressive answers and providing important communication systems for social safety and security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a claim. "His considerable expertise as well as deep-seated understanding of the challenges encountering state and local area agencies make him the ideal person to lead the Team of Information Technology. I am certain that under his management, New Mexico will certainly continue to accelerate our modern technology commercial infrastructure to better serve our communities." Barreras officially came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO role has moved hands a handful of attend current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private reasons. A handful of months later on, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the message in an interim capability. Sambandam went back to his CISO part in June 2022, when the state produced Peter Mantos to function as CIO. Mantos left a year eventually for a brand new duty in the guv's workplace, "overseeing IT-related exclusive jobs for governor-led projects," per the state. Sambandam once more actioned in as functioning CIO complying with Mantos retirement, a post he kept till this newest visit.