.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the condition's brand new CIO, the guv's workplace announced.This session follows much more than a year where the message was actually kept through an acting CIO. Barreras earlier functioned as Motorola Solutions' elderly area account supervisor for New Mexico as well as El Paso, Texas. While with the business, Barreras was involved in getting a contract to do a major broadcast system upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Information Technology-- the team he'll currently helm.Barreras' occupation consists of much more than twenty years in technical purchases, marketing control as well as public associations. He has a Bachelor of Company Management in advertising and marketing from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal leader with a tried and tested performance history in steering ingenious answers and also supplying essential interaction units for public safety," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a declaration. "His significant adventure and also deep-seated understanding of the challenges experiencing state and neighborhood companies create him the ideal individual to lead the Division of Infotech. I am actually certain that under his leadership, New Mexico will remain to advance our innovation infrastructure to much better serve our neighborhoods." Barreras officially became CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO function has actually switched palms a few times in current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for private reasons. A few months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam took up the article in an interim capacity. Sambandam went back to his CISO task in June 2022, when the state brought in Peter Mantos to work as CIO. Mantos left behind a year eventually for a brand-new duty in the governor's workplace, "supervising IT-related special tasks for governor-led efforts," per the state. Sambandam once more came in as acting CIO adhering to Mantos parting, a post he held up until this most recent consultation.