.New Mexico has actually named Manny Barreras as the condition's brand-new CIO, the guv's workplace announced.This visit follows more than a year where the post was held through an acting CIO. Barreras earlier served as Motorola Solutions' senior region account manager for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was actually associated with safeguarding an arrangement to execute a major broadcast system upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Information Technology-- the division he'll now helm.Barreras' career features greater than 20 years in technological sales, marketing control and also public relationships. He possesses an Undergraduate of Service Administration in advertising and marketing from New Mexico State College." Manny Barreras is actually an exceptional leader with a proven record in driving ingenious solutions and providing essential interaction units for social security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a declaration. "His considerable knowledge and also deep-seated understanding of the challenges encountering condition and local area organizations create him the suitable individual to lead the Division of Information Technology. I am certain that under his management, New Mexico will definitely continue to advance our modern technology structure to far better provide our neighborhoods." Barreras formally became CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO part has actually switched palms a handful of times in current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for private main reasons. A couple of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the article in an interim capacity. Sambandam returned to his CISO role in June 2022, when the condition generated Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a brand-new duty in the governor's workplace, "managing IT-related unique ventures for governor-led efforts," per the state. Sambandam again came in as behaving CIO observing Mantos retirement, an article he supported up until this latest consultation.