.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the condition's brand-new CIO, the guv's workplace announced.This session comes after much more than a year where the message was actually kept by a functioning CIO. Barreras recently acted as Motorola Solutions' senior area account supervisor for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was associated with protecting a contract to conduct a primary radio unit upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Information Technology-- the team he'll right now helm.Barreras' profession consists of much more than twenty years in technical sales, advertising and marketing management as well as social relationships. He has an Undergraduate of Business Management in advertising from New Mexico State Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is an outstanding innovator with a tried and tested record in driving cutting-edge services as well as delivering critical interaction systems for social protection," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham stated in a declaration. "His substantial experience as well as deep-seated understanding of the challenges experiencing state and nearby organizations create him the best individual to lead the Department of Infotech. I am confident that under his management, New Mexico are going to remain to advance our innovation framework to better offer our neighborhoods." Barreras formally ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO job has actually switched palms a couple of attend recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for individual factors. A few months later on, then-CISO Sambandam took up the blog post in an interim ability. Sambandam returned to his CISO part in June 2022, when the condition produced Peter Mantos to function as CIO. Mantos left behind a year eventually for a brand new function in the governor's workplace, "overseeing IT-related special projects for governor-led efforts," every the condition. Sambandam again intervened as functioning CIO complying with Mantos retirement, an article he held up until this recent consultation.