.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the state's new CIO, the governor's office announced.This session happens after greater than a year where the post was actually held by an acting CIO. Barreras earlier functioned as Motorola Solutions' elderly region profile manager for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While along with the provider, Barreras was associated with protecting a contract to carry out a major radio unit upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Information Technology-- the team he'll right now helm.Barreras' career consists of more than twenty years in technical purchases, advertising monitoring as well as social associations. He has an Undergraduate of Business Administration in advertising and marketing coming from New Mexico State College." Manny Barreras is a remarkable forerunner along with an established performance history in steering ingenious solutions and also delivering vital interaction systems for public security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham mentioned in a statement. "His extensive expertise as well as deeper understanding of the problems facing state and also local agencies create him the suitable person to lead the Team of Information Technology. I am actually self-assured that under his leadership, New Mexico will continue to advance our modern technology framework to far better serve our neighborhoods." Barreras formally came to be CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO job has moved palms a couple of times in current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private reasons. A couple of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam used up the post in an interim capacity. Sambandam returned to his CISO function in June 2022, when the state produced Peter Mantos to work as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a brand new task in the guv's workplace, "managing IT-related special ventures for governor-led projects," per the state. Sambandam once more stepped in as behaving CIO following Mantos retirement, an article he held up until this latest session.