.New Mexico has actually named Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This session follows much more than a year where the message was held through a behaving CIO. Barreras recently served as Motorola Solutions' senior territory profile supervisor for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was actually associated with securing an arrangement to perform a major broadcast device upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Infotech-- the division he'll now helm.Barreras' career includes much more than twenty years in technical purchases, advertising and marketing administration and social relationships. He has a Bachelor of Business Management in advertising and marketing coming from New Mexico State University." Manny Barreras is actually an awesome leader with an established record in steering ingenious answers as well as providing essential communication systems for public security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a statement. "His extensive adventure and also deep understanding of the problems facing condition and also nearby companies create him the optimal individual to lead the Team of Infotech. I am positive that under his management, New Mexico will definitely remain to accelerate our technology facilities to far better offer our neighborhoods." Barreras officially came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO job has actually moved palms a couple of times in latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for individual main reasons. A handful of months later on, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the post in an interim capability. Sambandam returned to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the state produced Peter Mantos to work as CIO. Mantos left a year later for a brand-new part in the governor's workplace, "supervising IT-related exclusive jobs for governor-led initiatives," per the condition. Sambandam once again intervened as acting CIO observing Mantos separation, a post he carried up until this recent consultation.