.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the condition's brand-new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This visit happens after greater than a year where the blog post was held through a behaving CIO. Barreras previously served as Motorola Solutions' elderly area account manager for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While with the company, Barreras was involved in securing a deal to conduct a major radio body upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Information Technology-- the department he'll now helm.Barreras' profession consists of much more than two decades in technical purchases, advertising and marketing management and also social relations. He possesses a Bachelor of Organization Management in advertising and marketing from New Mexico State Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is a phenomenal forerunner with an established track record in steering innovative solutions and also delivering vital communication bodies for public safety and security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a declaration. "His significant adventure as well as deeper understanding of the problems experiencing state and also local organizations create him the optimal person to lead the Department of Information Technology. I am actually certain that under his leadership, New Mexico are going to remain to evolve our modern technology commercial infrastructure to much better offer our areas." Barreras officially came to be CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO function has switched palms a handful of attend latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for personal explanations. A handful of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the article in an acting ability. Sambandam went back to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the condition produced Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left a year later on for a brand-new function in the guv's workplace, "managing IT-related exclusive ventures for governor-led campaigns," per the state. Sambandam once more intervened as behaving CIO adhering to Mantos separation, an article he kept until this newest appointment.