.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the state's brand new CIO, the guv's office announced.This visit follows much more than a year where the message was stored by an acting CIO. Barreras earlier acted as Motorola Solutions' senior region profile supervisor for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While with the business, Barreras was actually associated with securing a deal to execute a significant radio system upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Infotech-- the team he'll now helm.Barreras' job features greater than two decades in technical sales, marketing monitoring and also public associations. He has an Undergraduate of Business Management in advertising coming from New Mexico State College." Manny Barreras is an exceptional leader along with an effective performance history in driving innovative answers and delivering crucial communication bodies for social protection," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham pointed out in a declaration. "His substantial knowledge and deeper understanding of the challenges dealing with condition and also neighborhood companies make him the ideal person to lead the Division of Information Technology. I am actually confident that under his management, New Mexico will definitely continue to accelerate our technology commercial infrastructure to much better provide our communities." Barreras officially ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO part has actually switched palms a handful of attend current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for individual main reasons. A few months later, then-CISO Sambandam used up the article in an interim capability. Sambandam went back to his CISO part in June 2022, when the state produced Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left behind a year eventually for a brand new role in the guv's workplace, "supervising IT-related unique jobs for governor-led campaigns," every the state. Sambandam again intervened as acting CIO following Mantos parting, a post he carried up until this latest visit.