About us
Small by design. Decades of experience behind us.
Forester IT takes its name from the Forester kangaroo, Tasmania’s largest land mammal and the most widely distributed macropod in Australia, where it is more commonly known as the eastern grey kangaroo.
How we work
One point of contact.
When you call Forester IT, you deal directly with the person doing the work. No call centre. No rotating cast of technicians. Just a direct relationship with the person responsible for your project.
A trusted network when it’s needed.
Forester IT is part of several business communities and works with a network of trusted specialists. Sometimes that means bringing in additional skills for a project; sometimes it means providing our own expertise as part of someone else’s team.
It’s about the client.
The right solution doesn’t always come from one person or one company. Whatever combination of people, skills and experience delivers the right outcome is what we put together.
Experience
Where the experience comes from
Forester IT was founded in 2008, after our founder left full-time work as a Regional IT Manager and Acting Global CIO for a large international mining company.
Automation had already been a significant part of that career for many years. The first autonomous operation was commissioned in 1996 — an underground crushing and haulage system at Renison Tin in Tasmania.
Since then, that experience has spanned traditional process control and PLC-based systems, ERP migrations, ERP and RPA implementations, fixed-plant autonomous and fuzzy control systems, systems integration, and mobile autonomous operations.
That work has reached some genuinely remote places.
Exploration programs across Australia and the Steppes of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Control systems 4.5 km underground in South Africa. Autonomous haulage systems 4 km above sea level in the Chilean Andes. And even a feasibility study for a salt mine beneath the English Channel.
It’s a long way from a kangaroo-named clothing business in Tasmania.
But the same instinct runs through all of it:
Build practical systems. Make them reliable. Make them work.