.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the state's new CIO, the guv's workplace announced.This visit happens after greater than a year where the message was actually stored by a behaving CIO. Barreras earlier acted as Motorola Solutions' elderly area account supervisor for New Mexico as well as El Paso, Texas. While with the company, Barreras was actually associated with securing an agreement to execute a primary radio unit upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Infotech-- the team he'll currently helm.Barreras' career includes greater than 20 years in specialized sales, advertising and marketing administration and social associations. He possesses a Bachelor of Business Management in marketing from New Mexico State Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is an exceptional innovator along with a proven performance history in driving cutting-edge options and also providing critical interaction devices for social security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a statement. "His substantial expertise as well as deeper understanding of the difficulties encountering state and also regional organizations make him the best individual to lead the Department of Information Technology. I am positive that under his leadership, New Mexico will certainly continue to evolve our technology facilities to better serve our communities." Barreras officially ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO duty has changed hands a handful of attend current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for individual explanations. A couple of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam took up the blog post in an interim ability. Sambandam returned to his CISO job in June 2022, when the state introduced Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left a year later for a brand-new job in the governor's office, "looking after IT-related special jobs for governor-led projects," every the state. Sambandam once more intervened as acting CIO complying with Mantos retirement, an article he held until this most recent session.