.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the condition's brand-new CIO, the guv's office announced.This visit happens after much more than a year where the post was stored through a functioning CIO. Barreras recently acted as Motorola Solutions' senior area profile manager for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was involved in getting an arrangement to carry out a significant radio unit upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Information Technology-- the division he'll now helm.Barreras' career features much more than 20 years in technical purchases, marketing control and social associations. He possesses a Bachelor of Organization Administration in advertising and marketing coming from New Mexico Condition University." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal innovator with a proven performance history in driving impressive services and delivering important communication devices for public security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham pointed out in a statement. "His substantial expertise and deeper understanding of the difficulties facing state and also local area companies make him the excellent person to lead the Division of Information Technology. I am certain that under his leadership, New Mexico will definitely continue to progress our modern technology commercial infrastructure to much better provide our communities." Barreras formally came to be CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO part has actually shifted hands a couple of times in recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private reasons. A few months later on, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the message in an interim capability. Sambandam returned to his CISO task in June 2022, when the state generated Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left a year eventually for a brand-new function in the governor's office, "overseeing IT-related special tasks for governor-led projects," every the state. Sambandam again stepped in as behaving CIO adhering to Mantos departure, a post he kept up until this most recent visit.