.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the guv's workplace announced.This session follows greater than a year where the article was kept by a functioning CIO. Barreras recently acted as Motorola Solutions' elderly territory profile supervisor for New Mexico as well as El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was involved in safeguarding an agreement to conduct a major broadcast system upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Infotech-- the team he'll now helm.Barreras' career consists of greater than two decades in technical purchases, advertising and marketing control as well as social connections. He has an Undergraduate of Company Management in advertising coming from New Mexico Condition University." Manny Barreras is actually an awesome forerunner with a tried and tested record in steering cutting-edge solutions as well as delivering vital communication bodies for social security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a claim. "His considerable adventure as well as deeper understanding of the problems experiencing condition and also regional firms make him the ideal individual to lead the Department of Information Technology. I am actually self-assured that under his management, New Mexico will continue to evolve our technology infrastructure to far better provide our communities." Barreras officially came to be CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO duty has actually switched hands a couple of attend latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for personal causes. A couple of months later, then-CISO Sambandam used up the post in an interim capacity. Sambandam went back to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the condition brought in Peter Mantos to function as CIO. Mantos left a year later for a brand new job in the guv's office, "managing IT-related unique jobs for governor-led efforts," every the state. Sambandam once more intervened as behaving CIO observing Mantos retirement, a post he kept until this recent visit.