.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the condition's new CIO, the guv's office announced.This consultation happens after more than a year where the message was actually held through a behaving CIO. Barreras previously acted as Motorola Solutions' senior area account manager for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was associated with safeguarding an arrangement to carry out a major broadcast body upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Infotech-- the team he'll now helm.Barreras' occupation includes much more than two decades in technological sales, advertising and marketing monitoring and also social relations. He has a Bachelor of Company Administration in marketing coming from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal innovator with a proven record in driving innovative options and supplying essential communication units for social safety," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a statement. "His significant expertise as well as deep-seated understanding of the difficulties dealing with state as well as regional companies create him the excellent person to lead the Division of Information Technology. I am actually certain that under his leadership, New Mexico are going to continue to progress our technology commercial infrastructure to far better serve our communities." Barreras formally ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO function has shifted hands a handful of times in recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private reasons. A handful of months later, then-CISO Sambandam used up the post in an acting capacity. Sambandam went back to his CISO role in June 2022, when the condition generated Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a brand new job in the governor's workplace, "supervising IT-related unique jobs for governor-led projects," per the state. Sambandam once again came in as functioning CIO complying with Mantos parting, an article he kept till this recent visit.