.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the state's new CIO, the governor's workplace announced.This visit comes after more than a year where the message was stored through a behaving CIO. Barreras earlier functioned as Motorola Solutions' senior area account supervisor for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While with the business, Barreras was involved in protecting a deal to carry out a significant radio device upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Infotech-- the department he'll currently helm.Barreras' occupation includes more than twenty years in technological sales, advertising management and also public connections. He possesses an Undergraduate of Organization Management in marketing from New Mexico State Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is actually an outstanding forerunner with a tested record in steering impressive services as well as delivering vital interaction units for social safety," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham pointed out in a claim. "His considerable expertise and deeper understanding of the problems facing condition as well as local companies make him the excellent individual to lead the Division of Infotech. I am actually confident that under his management, New Mexico will definitely remain to accelerate our innovation facilities to much better provide our communities." Barreras officially ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO role has actually moved hands a few times in latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for personal factors. A couple of months later, then-CISO Sambandam used up the message in an interim capability. Sambandam went back to his CISO duty in June 2022, when the condition introduced Peter Mantos to act as CIO. Mantos left a year eventually for a new task in the guv's workplace, "looking after IT-related unique jobs for governor-led efforts," per the condition. Sambandam once more intervened as behaving CIO complying with Mantos departure, an article he kept up until this latest consultation.