Govtech

New Mexico Designates Manny Barreras as Upcoming CIO

.New Mexico has called Manny Barreras as the condition's brand-new CIO, the governor's office announced.This session happens after greater than a year where the message was stored through a functioning CIO. Barreras recently acted as Motorola Solutions' elderly territory account manager for New Mexico and also El Paso, Texas. While along with the business, Barreras was actually associated with getting an agreement to execute a major broadcast system upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Information Technology-- the department he'll currently helm.Barreras' occupation features more than twenty years in technological sales, marketing administration and also public relations. He possesses an Undergraduate of Organization Management in advertising and marketing from New Mexico Condition Educational Institution." Manny Barreras is actually a phenomenal innovator along with a tested performance history in steering impressive options as well as delivering critical interaction units for public safety and security," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham mentioned in a statement. "His substantial knowledge and also deeper understanding of the challenges dealing with state as well as local area agencies create him the ideal individual to lead the Department of Infotech. I am confident that under his management, New Mexico are going to remain to accelerate our modern technology framework to better offer our areas." Barreras officially came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO task has actually switched palms a few attend latest years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for personal factors. A handful of months later on, then-CISO Sambandam used up the message in an interim ability. Sambandam returned to his CISO part in June 2022, when the state brought in Peter Mantos to function as CIO. Mantos left a year later for a brand-new duty in the governor's office, "looking after IT-related special tasks for governor-led efforts," every the condition. Sambandam again intervened as behaving CIO complying with Mantos parting, a post he carried up until this most recent consultation.