.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the state's brand-new CIO, the guv's workplace announced.This appointment comes after more than a year where the article was kept by a functioning CIO. Barreras recently served as Motorola Solutions' elderly region profile manager for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was actually associated with getting a contract to carry out a major radio body upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Infotech-- the department he'll right now helm.Barreras' career includes greater than two decades in technical sales, advertising administration and also social associations. He possesses an Undergraduate of Company Management in advertising coming from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is an outstanding forerunner with a tested performance history in steering cutting-edge remedies and also delivering vital communication devices for social security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham pointed out in a claim. "His comprehensive experience and also deeper understanding of the obstacles dealing with condition and also local area companies create him the ideal person to lead the Division of Information Technology. I am actually self-assured that under his management, New Mexico are going to remain to advance our technology framework to much better offer our neighborhoods." Barreras formally came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO part has actually switched palms a couple of times in recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for individual main reasons. A few months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam took up the message in an acting ability. Sambandam went back to his CISO function in June 2022, when the state produced Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a new job in the governor's workplace, "supervising IT-related exclusive tasks for governor-led projects," per the state. Sambandam again stepped in as behaving CIO complying with Mantos departure, a post he carried till this most recent session.