.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the state's new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This consultation comes after greater than a year where the article was held by a functioning CIO. Barreras recently worked as Motorola Solutions' elderly region profile supervisor for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the company, Barreras was actually involved in safeguarding an agreement to do a primary broadcast unit upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Infotech-- the division he'll now helm.Barreras' occupation includes greater than 20 years in technological purchases, advertising and marketing management and also social associations. He possesses a Bachelor of Company Management in advertising and marketing from New Mexico State Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is an awesome innovator with an effective performance history in driving cutting-edge answers and supplying crucial communication units for public safety and security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a claim. "His considerable expertise as well as deep understanding of the obstacles facing state and also neighborhood organizations create him the best individual to lead the Department of Information Technology. I am actually self-assured that under his leadership, New Mexico are going to remain to accelerate our technology commercial infrastructure to better offer our areas." Barreras formally became CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO task has actually moved hands a handful of times in current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private causes. A few months later on, then-CISO Sambandam used up the article in an interim capability. Sambandam came back to his CISO function in June 2022, when the state introduced Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left a year later on for a brand-new function in the guv's office, "looking after IT-related special jobs for governor-led campaigns," per the condition. Sambandam again actioned in as behaving CIO following Mantos separation, an article he supported up until this latest consultation.