.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This session comes after much more than a year where the message was actually held by an acting CIO. Barreras earlier served as Motorola Solutions' elderly area account manager for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While with the business, Barreras was involved in getting a deal to perform a major radio body upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Information Technology-- the department he'll now helm.Barreras' job consists of more than two decades in technical sales, advertising and marketing management as well as social relations. He possesses an Undergraduate of Company Administration in advertising and marketing coming from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is actually an extraordinary leader along with an established record in steering cutting-edge remedies as well as providing important communication systems for social protection," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a statement. "His significant knowledge as well as deeper understanding of the problems encountering condition as well as local area firms make him the excellent person to lead the Department of Infotech. I am actually confident that under his leadership, New Mexico will definitely continue to evolve our modern technology infrastructure to much better serve our communities." Barreras officially ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO duty has actually moved hands a few attend latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private reasons. A few months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the blog post in an acting ability. Sambandam went back to his CISO function in June 2022, when the state introduced Peter Mantos to function as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later for a new task in the guv's workplace, "supervising IT-related unique jobs for governor-led efforts," every the condition. Sambandam once more stepped in as functioning CIO observing Mantos departure, an article he carried up until this latest session.