.New Mexico has actually named Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the governor's office announced.This visit happens after greater than a year where the post was actually kept through a behaving CIO. Barreras formerly functioned as Motorola Solutions' elderly territory profile manager for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the business, Barreras was actually involved in safeguarding a deal to execute a major broadcast unit upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Information Technology-- the department he'll now helm.Barreras' job consists of more than 20 years in specialized purchases, marketing monitoring and also public connections. He possesses an Undergraduate of Business Management in advertising from New Mexico Condition University." Manny Barreras is actually a remarkable innovator with an established performance history in driving ingenious remedies and delivering critical interaction devices for social safety," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a statement. "His extensive adventure and deep-seated understanding of the difficulties dealing with state as well as nearby companies make him the best person to lead the Team of Infotech. I am actually positive that under his management, New Mexico will certainly remain to advance our modern technology facilities to better serve our communities." Barreras officially came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO duty has actually changed palms a handful of times in current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private main reasons. A handful of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam took up the article in an acting ability. Sambandam went back to his CISO job in June 2022, when the condition brought in Peter Mantos to work as CIO. Mantos left a year eventually for a brand new duty in the guv's workplace, "supervising IT-related exclusive projects for governor-led projects," every the state. Sambandam once more came in as behaving CIO following Mantos retirement, a post he supported till this latest appointment.