.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This consultation comes after greater than a year where the post was held by a functioning CIO. Barreras earlier acted as Motorola Solutions' senior territory profile manager for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the provider, Barreras was involved in protecting an agreement to perform a primary broadcast body upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Information Technology-- the team he'll right now helm.Barreras' job features much more than twenty years in specialized purchases, advertising and marketing monitoring as well as social associations. He has an Undergraduate of Business Administration in marketing from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is actually an extraordinary forerunner with an effective performance history in steering ingenious answers as well as providing vital interaction devices for social protection," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham mentioned in a statement. "His comprehensive knowledge and deep understanding of the obstacles experiencing state and also local companies create him the perfect person to lead the Department of Information Technology. I am self-assured that under his leadership, New Mexico will definitely remain to evolve our innovation structure to far better provide our areas." Barreras formally came to be CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO task has actually shifted hands a handful of times in current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for individual main reasons. A handful of months later on, then-CISO Sambandam used up the message in an interim capability. Sambandam returned to his CISO task in June 2022, when the state introduced Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later for a brand new job in the guv's workplace, "managing IT-related special jobs for governor-led efforts," every the state. Sambandam once more came in as behaving CIO following Mantos retirement, a post he carried up until this recent appointment.