.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the state's new CIO, the guv's office announced.This consultation comes after greater than a year where the post was stored by a behaving CIO. Barreras previously functioned as Motorola Solutions' elderly territory profile manager for New Mexico as well as El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was actually involved in safeguarding an agreement to carry out a significant radio system upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Information Technology-- the team he'll currently helm.Barreras' career consists of greater than 20 years in technological sales, advertising and marketing control as well as social connections. He possesses a Bachelor of Business Management in marketing coming from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is actually an outstanding leader along with a tried and tested performance history in driving ingenious options and supplying crucial communication bodies for social protection," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a statement. "His considerable knowledge and deep understanding of the challenges facing condition as well as local area agencies create him the excellent individual to lead the Department of Infotech. I am actually self-assured that under his management, New Mexico will certainly continue to accelerate our technology commercial infrastructure to much better serve our communities." Barreras officially ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO task has shifted palms a handful of attend latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for personal factors. A handful of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam used up the message in an interim capacity. Sambandam went back to his CISO function in June 2022, when the state generated Peter Mantos to function as CIO. Mantos left a year later on for a new job in the governor's office, "supervising IT-related special tasks for governor-led campaigns," per the state. Sambandam once again intervened as behaving CIO adhering to Mantos retirement, an article he carried up until this most recent consultation.