.New Mexico has actually called Manny Barreras as the condition's brand-new CIO, the guv's workplace announced.This appointment happens after much more than a year where the article was actually kept by an acting CIO. Barreras recently acted as Motorola Solutions' senior territory profile manager for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While with the business, Barreras was associated with safeguarding an agreement to do a significant radio system upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Infotech-- the team he'll currently helm.Barreras' career features much more than twenty years in technological sales, advertising and marketing monitoring and also social associations. He has a Bachelor of Organization Management in marketing from New Mexico Condition University." Manny Barreras is actually an extraordinary leader with a proven performance history in driving ingenious services as well as providing critical communication devices for public safety," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a declaration. "His comprehensive adventure as well as deeper understanding of the difficulties facing state and also regional firms make him the perfect individual to lead the Division of Infotech. I am certain that under his management, New Mexico are going to continue to progress our modern technology infrastructure to far better offer our areas." Barreras officially ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO task has actually moved hands a few attend current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for personal causes. A couple of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam took up the post in an interim ability. Sambandam came back to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the state generated Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later for a new job in the guv's office, "supervising IT-related special ventures for governor-led initiatives," every the state. Sambandam once again came in as behaving CIO adhering to Mantos retirement, a post he supported till this latest visit.