.New Mexico has actually named Manny Barreras as the condition’s new CIO, the guv’s workplace announced.This appointment comes after much more than a year where the message was actually kept through a behaving CIO. Barreras previously served as Motorola Solutions’ elderly area profile supervisor for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While with the provider, Barreras was involved in getting an agreement to execute a major broadcast unit upgrade for the New Mexico Department of Infotech– the division he’ll right now helm.Barreras’ occupation includes more than 20 years in technological purchases, marketing administration as well as public associations.
He possesses an Undergraduate of Service Management in advertising and marketing from New Mexico State College.” Manny Barreras is an extraordinary leader with an effective performance history in driving innovative options and also providing critical interaction devices for public safety,” New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham mentioned in a statement. “His comprehensive adventure as well as deeper understanding of the difficulties facing condition and nearby companies create him the optimal individual to lead the Team of Information Technology.
I am actually self-assured that under his leadership, New Mexico will certainly continue to advance our technology infrastructure to much better serve our communities.” Barreras formally ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico’s CIO job has shifted hands a couple of attend recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private main reasons.
A handful of months later, then-CISO Sambandam took up the message in an interim ability. Sambandam came back to his CISO job in June 2022, when the state generated Peter Mantos to function as CIO. Mantos left behind a year later on for a brand-new role in the guv’s workplace, “managing IT-related exclusive ventures for governor-led projects,” every the condition.
Sambandam once more intervened as functioning CIO adhering to Mantos retirement, an article he kept till this recent session.