{"id":24844,"date":"2024-04-04T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T00:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=24844"},"modified":"2024-04-04T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T00:37:35","slug":"northern-appoints-experienced-new-head-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=24844","title":{"rendered":"Northern appoints experienced new Head of IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former British Library and housing association executive is set to join train operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernrailway.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern<\/a> as its new Head of IT. <\/p>\n<p>David Sparling, who hails from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has almost 30 years of IT industry experience. <\/p>\n<p>He began his career as a Software Developer at First Direct bank, and went on to hold a number of senior IT roles at HSBC, managing people and projects across the world.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, he was Head of IT at The British Library, before taking on the role of Chief Technology Officer at Anchor Trust, a specialist housing and care provider for people in later life.<\/p>\n<p>Northern said that, in his new role, David will build on the activity already underway across the train operator\u2019s fleet, station estate, crew bases and office facilities.<\/p>\n<p>He will also develop the IT strategy to ensure it supports the train operator\u2019s business plan.<br \/>Commenting on his appointment, Sparling said: \u201cI\u2019ve been interested in the railway most of my life and I\u2019m really excited to join Northern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward to getting to know how the business works, to see what opportunities technology can bring to support colleagues and customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m also looking forward to getting into the industry and seeing what my experience in leading technology can bring to it\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former British Library and housing association executive is set to join train operator Northern as its new Head of IT. David Sparling, who hails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[7,11],"class_list":["post-24844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-transport","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}