.New Mexico has named Manny Barreras as the condition’s new CIO, the governor’s workplace announced.This visit comes after much more than a year where the message was actually kept by an acting CIO. Barreras earlier worked as Motorola Solutions’ senior territory account supervisor for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While with the company, Barreras was involved in safeguarding a contract to do a major broadcast body upgrade for the New Mexico Division of Infotech– the team he’ll currently helm.Barreras’ profession includes greater than 20 years in technical sales, advertising and marketing administration and also social connections.
He possesses a Bachelor of Company Administration in marketing from New Mexico Condition Educational Institution.” Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal forerunner along with an effective track record in driving cutting-edge remedies and also supplying crucial communication devices for public safety,” New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham said in a declaration. “His extensive expertise as well as deep-seated understanding of the problems facing condition as well as nearby firms create him the best person to lead the Team of Infotech.
I am actually certain that under his leadership, New Mexico will certainly continue to progress our innovation commercial infrastructure to better provide our communities.” Barreras formally ended up being CIO on Sept. 9, replacing Raja Sambandam.New Mexico’s CIO duty has actually shifted palms a couple of times in latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar resigned for private explanations.
A couple of months later on, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the message in an interim capability. Sambandam went back to his CISO function in June 2022, when the condition generated Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left a year later on for a brand-new duty in the guv’s office, “supervising IT-related exclusive tasks for governor-led efforts,” per the state.
Sambandam once again stepped in as functioning CIO adhering to Mantos parting, a post he carried up until this newest consultation.