James Forbes

Research Team Leader / Senior Software Engineer

Contact

Tasmanian ICT Centre
Castray Esplanade
Hobart TAS 7000

GPO Box 1538
Hobart TAS 7001

Tel: 61 3 6232 5577
Fax: 61 3 6232 5050
Email

Themes

• Local Energy Systems (Energy Transformed Flagship)

Projects

• Energy Services

Science Area

• Sensor Science and Technology

Biography

James is a senior software engineer at the Tasmanian ICT Centre and he is currently working on the Energy Services project under the Energy Transformed Flagship.

James has both research and commercial software engineering experience in the Petroleum industry having worked on geophysical and petrophysical systems at CSIRO Petroleum in Melbourne, Paradigm Geophysical in Brisbane and Shell International Exploration and Production in the Netherlands.

He also has communications experience having worked for Boeing Australia in Brisbane and satellite communications experience having worked at SES-Astra in Luxembourg. SES-Astra are the leading provider of digital TV services in Europe and a major contributor to the digital video broadcasting (DVB) standard.

Academic Qualifications

1989	BSc (Hons), University of Tasmania
2009	Grad. Cert. of Commercialisation, University of Tasmania

Recent Professional Experience

2007-2008	Senior Software Engineer, Paradigm Geophysical, Brisbane, Australia
2006-2007	Senior Software Engineer, Boeing Australia, Brisbane, Australia
2004-2005	IT Consultant, SES-Astra, Luxembourg
2002-2005	IT Consultant, Shell International Exploration and Production, The Hague, Netherlands
1999-2001	Software Engineer, CSIRO Petroleum, Melbourne Australia

Student Supervision

2010/2011	Andrew Carolan, Vacation Student Project
2009/2010	Hoa Ngoc Do, Vacation Student Project

Science Citizenship

MAIE	Member of the Australian Institute of Energy