.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the state's brand-new CIO, the governor's office announced.This consultation happens after much more than a year where the blog post was actually kept through an acting CIO. Barreras previously acted as Motorola Solutions' elderly territory profile supervisor for New Mexico as well as El Paso, Texas. While with the firm, Barreras was actually involved in safeguarding a deal to do a significant radio unit upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Information Technology-- the team he'll now helm.Barreras' occupation features much more than two decades in technological purchases, advertising and marketing monitoring and social associations. He has an Undergraduate of Service Administration in advertising and marketing from New Mexico Condition College." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal leader with an effective performance history in driving impressive solutions as well as supplying important interaction devices for social safety," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham mentioned in a declaration. "His considerable adventure as well as deeper understanding of the difficulties facing state as well as local firms create him the ideal individual to lead the Department of Information Technology. I am actually certain that under his leadership, New Mexico will remain to accelerate our innovation commercial infrastructure to far better offer our areas." Barreras officially ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO role has actually shifted hands a handful of times in current years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private reasons. A handful of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam took up the post in an interim capacity. Sambandam came back to his CISO function in June 2022, when the state generated Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a brand new task in the guv's workplace, "managing IT-related unique ventures for governor-led initiatives," every the state. Sambandam once again intervened as functioning CIO following Mantos retirement, an article he kept up until this latest consultation.