.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the state's brand new CIO, the guv's office announced.This session follows greater than a year where the article was actually held through a behaving CIO. Barreras previously worked as Motorola Solutions' senior region account supervisor for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the company, Barreras was associated with protecting an arrangement to execute a significant radio body upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Information Technology-- the team he'll now helm.Barreras' job features more than twenty years in technical purchases, advertising and marketing management and also social relations. He possesses an Undergraduate of Service Administration in advertising coming from New Mexico State College." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal innovator with an established record in driving impressive answers and delivering important interaction units for public protection," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham stated in a claim. "His significant knowledge as well as deep-seated understanding of the problems experiencing state and neighborhood organizations create him the ideal person to lead the Department of Infotech. I am self-assured that under his leadership, New Mexico will continue to evolve our innovation framework to much better provide our areas." Barreras formally became CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO job has moved hands a few attend recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for individual explanations. A couple of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam used up the post in an interim ability. Sambandam went back to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the condition introduced Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left behind a year eventually for a brand-new job in the guv's office, "looking after IT-related unique ventures for governor-led projects," per the condition. Sambandam once again actioned in as behaving CIO complying with Mantos separation, an article he held until this newest appointment.