.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the state's brand new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This session follows more than a year where the message was held by a behaving CIO. Barreras earlier functioned as Motorola Solutions' senior area profile manager for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While along with the company, Barreras was associated with getting an arrangement to perform a primary radio device upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Information Technology-- the team he'll currently helm.Barreras' profession features more than twenty years in specialized sales, advertising and marketing monitoring and social relationships. He possesses an Undergraduate of Organization Management in advertising coming from New Mexico Condition Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is an exceptional leader along with a tried and tested track record in steering ingenious services as well as delivering essential interaction systems for public security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a declaration. "His substantial knowledge and also deep-seated understanding of the challenges encountering state and nearby agencies create him the best individual to lead the Team of Information Technology. I am actually positive that under his leadership, New Mexico are going to remain to progress our technology commercial infrastructure to much better serve our areas." Barreras formally came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO part has actually moved palms a couple of attend latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private main reasons. A few months later, then-CISO Sambandam took up the post in an interim capacity. Sambandam returned to his CISO job in June 2022, when the condition generated Peter Mantos to work as CIO. Mantos left a year eventually for a new duty in the guv's office, "managing IT-related exclusive jobs for governor-led initiatives," every the state. Sambandam again came in as functioning CIO complying with Mantos retirement, an article he kept until this recent appointment.