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New Mexico Designates Manny Barreras as Following CIO

.New Mexico has actually called Manny Barreras as the condition's brand new CIO, the guv's office announced.This session comes after more than a year where the blog post was stored by a functioning CIO. Barreras earlier worked as Motorola Solutions' senior region account manager for New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. While along with the provider, Barreras was involved in getting an arrangement to perform a significant radio system upgrade for the New Mexico Team of Information Technology-- the division he'll now helm.Barreras' profession features more than 20 years in technical sales, marketing monitoring as well as public associations. He has an Undergraduate of Business Management in advertising and marketing from New Mexico State College." Manny Barreras is an outstanding innovator along with a tested performance history in driving cutting-edge remedies and also providing vital communication bodies for public safety," New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham claimed in a claim. "His considerable adventure and also deep-seated understanding of the challenges facing condition and regional firms create him the ideal person to lead the Team of Information Technology. I am confident that under his leadership, New Mexico are going to remain to evolve our technology structure to much better serve our neighborhoods." Barreras formally came to be CIO on Sept. 9, taking over from Raja Sambandam.New Mexico's CIO task has changed hands a handful of times in recent years. In 2021, then-CIO John Salazar surrendered for private factors. A handful of months eventually, then-CISO Sambandam occupied the blog post in an interim capability. Sambandam returned to his CISO function in June 2022, when the condition brought in Peter Mantos to serve as CIO. Mantos left behind a year eventually for a brand new part in the guv's office, "looking after IT-related special jobs for governor-led efforts," per the condition. Sambandam once more stepped in as acting CIO adhering to Mantos retirement, a post he held up until this newest appointment.