.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the condition's brand new CIO, the guv's office announced.This consultation comes after much more than a year where the post was actually stored through an acting CIO. Barreras formerly served as Motorola Solutions' senior area account supervisor for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the provider, Barreras was actually associated with safeguarding a contract to conduct a primary broadcast device upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Infotech-- the team he'll currently helm.Barreras' career consists of greater than two decades in technological purchases, marketing management and also social associations. He has a Bachelor of Organization Management in advertising and marketing coming from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal forerunner with a tried and tested record in steering ingenious services as well as supplying crucial interaction systems for public safety and security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a claim. "His extensive expertise as well as deeper understanding of the obstacles experiencing condition and also local area firms create him the best individual to lead the Team of Information Technology. I am self-assured that under his management, New Mexico will certainly remain to accelerate our technology framework to far better offer our neighborhoods." Barreras formally became CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO role has actually switched palms a handful of attend latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for individual main reasons. A couple of months later on, then-CISO Sambandam used up the article in an acting capability. Sambandam returned to his CISO function in June 2022, when the condition produced Peter Mantos to function as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a new duty in the guv's workplace, "managing IT-related unique ventures for governor-led projects," every the state. Sambandam once again intervened as behaving CIO complying with Mantos retirement, an article he kept till this newest session.