.New Mexico has actually called Manny Barreras as the condition's brand-new CIO, the guv's office announced.This appointment happens after much more than a year where the blog post was actually kept by a behaving CIO. Barreras earlier served as Motorola Solutions' elderly area profile supervisor for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While along with the provider, Barreras was actually associated with safeguarding an agreement to carry out a primary broadcast unit upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Information Technology-- the team he'll right now helm.Barreras' career features much more than two decades in technological purchases, advertising administration and public associations. He has a Bachelor of Organization Management in advertising coming from New Mexico State Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is an outstanding innovator along with a proven record in steering cutting-edge options as well as supplying vital communication bodies for public safety and security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a declaration. "His extensive expertise as well as deeper understanding of the challenges dealing with state and also local firms make him the ideal person to lead the Division of Infotech. I am actually certain that under his management, New Mexico will remain to progress our technology facilities to far better offer our neighborhoods." Barreras formally ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO job has actually shifted hands a couple of attend current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for personal reasons. A few months later, then-CISO Sambandam took up the message in an acting capability. Sambandam returned to his CISO role in June 2022, when the state introduced Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left a year later for a new function in the governor's workplace, "managing IT-related unique tasks for governor-led efforts," per the condition. Sambandam again stepped in as behaving CIO adhering to Mantos separation, an article he supported till this latest appointment.