.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the condition's brand new CIO, the guv's office announced.This appointment happens after more than a year where the message was held by a functioning CIO. Barreras earlier acted as Motorola Solutions' elderly territory profile supervisor for New Mexico as well as El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was actually associated with safeguarding a deal to carry out a major broadcast body upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Information Technology-- the division he'll right now helm.Barreras' profession includes more than twenty years in technical sales, advertising and marketing control and social relations. He has an Undergraduate of Service Administration in advertising and marketing from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal leader with an established record in driving ingenious options and supplying essential interaction bodies for social safety," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a statement. "His comprehensive experience and deeper understanding of the challenges facing condition and local area firms make him the suitable individual to lead the Division of Infotech. I am actually positive that under his management, New Mexico will remain to advance our innovation structure to far better serve our neighborhoods." Barreras formally ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO part has actually moved palms a few attend current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for personal factors. A couple of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam used up the article in an interim ability. Sambandam went back to his CISO function in June 2022, when the condition produced Peter Mantos to work as CIO. Mantos left behind a year eventually for a brand new function in the guv's workplace, "supervising IT-related special projects for governor-led efforts," every the state. Sambandam once again stepped in as functioning CIO adhering to Mantos parting, a post he supported until this most recent session.