.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the state's brand-new CIO, the guv's office announced.This session follows greater than a year where the post was stored by a functioning CIO. Barreras recently served as Motorola Solutions' senior area profile manager for New Mexico as well as El Paso, Texas. While along with the provider, Barreras was involved in safeguarding an agreement to do a major broadcast unit upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Infotech-- the department he'll right now helm.Barreras' occupation includes more than twenty years in technological sales, advertising monitoring as well as social relationships. He possesses a Bachelor of Organization Administration in advertising coming from New Mexico State University." Manny Barreras is actually an extraordinary forerunner along with an effective performance history in steering innovative solutions and also delivering important communication units for social safety and security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham mentioned in a claim. "His considerable adventure as well as deep-seated understanding of the problems facing state as well as local area organizations make him the suitable individual to lead the Division of Infotech. I am positive that under his leadership, New Mexico will definitely continue to progress our innovation structure to far better provide our areas." Barreras formally came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO part has switched hands a few attend recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for individual factors. A few months later on, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the message in an interim ability. Sambandam returned to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the state produced Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a brand new duty in the governor's workplace, "looking after IT-related special tasks for governor-led campaigns," per the state. Sambandam again stepped in as behaving CIO following Mantos departure, a post he supported until this newest consultation.