.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This visit comes after greater than a year where the blog post was actually kept by a behaving CIO. Barreras formerly functioned as Motorola Solutions' senior region account manager for New Mexico as well as El Paso, Texas. While along with the company, Barreras was actually associated with protecting a contract to carry out a primary radio system upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Information Technology-- the division he'll currently helm.Barreras' occupation features much more than two decades in technological purchases, advertising and marketing monitoring and public relationships. He has a Bachelor of Organization Administration in advertising and marketing coming from New Mexico Condition Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is actually a remarkable leader along with a proven performance history in driving cutting-edge solutions and also providing essential communication devices for social security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham stated in a statement. "His substantial expertise and deep understanding of the problems encountering state and also nearby firms make him the best person to lead the Department of Information Technology. I am confident that under his management, New Mexico will certainly continue to progress our technology structure to much better offer our communities." Barreras formally came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO function has moved palms a couple of attend recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for individual reasons. A few months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam took up the message in an interim capacity. Sambandam came back to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the condition generated Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left a year eventually for a brand-new task in the governor's office, "supervising IT-related unique jobs for governor-led efforts," every the state. Sambandam again stepped in as acting CIO complying with Mantos parting, an article he carried till this latest consultation.