.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the governor's office announced.This visit happens after greater than a year where the article was stored through a behaving CIO. Barreras earlier served as Motorola Solutions' elderly territory account manager for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While with the business, Barreras was involved in safeguarding an arrangement to do a major broadcast unit upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Infotech-- the division he'll now helm.Barreras' profession consists of much more than twenty years in technical sales, advertising monitoring and also social associations. He has an Undergraduate of Company Administration in marketing from New Mexico State University." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal innovator along with a tried and tested track record in steering ingenious solutions as well as supplying critical interaction devices for public security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham stated in a declaration. "His substantial experience and also deep understanding of the obstacles facing state and local organizations create him the excellent individual to lead the Department of Information Technology. I am actually certain that under his leadership, New Mexico will definitely remain to advance our modern technology commercial infrastructure to much better serve our areas." Barreras formally became CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO role has changed palms a couple of attend latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for personal causes. A handful of months later, then-CISO Sambandam took up the blog post in an acting capability. Sambandam returned to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the condition introduced Peter Mantos to work as CIO. Mantos left behind a year eventually for a brand-new function in the governor's office, "looking after IT-related special ventures for governor-led efforts," per the condition. Sambandam once more intervened as acting CIO observing Mantos parting, a post he held till this newest visit.