Raised and educated in Scotland, UK,  he has dual UK and Mozambique nationality and is fluent in both the English and Portuguese Languages.

Campsie Ltd is his consulting company, registered in Mozambique in 2012, and providing consulting services since then.

He has consulted for operations based in Mozambique, South Africa, the UK and Zimbabwe.   Some learning from the work he has done is mentioned on this blog.

His focus is on medium to long-term engagements providing:

• set up and optimization of operations, particularly those with complex workflows
• selection, roll-out, consolidation and customization of core information systems
• integration of operations and systems with business partner systems

He typically performs these engagements as follows:

• An initial advisory period whereby he learns about the objective, its context, and develops a solution plan.
• An implementation phase, via an Executive Management role in the customer organization, whereby he puts the plan into practice.
• A handover phase whereby he defines, recruits and coaches a team which can run the continuing operation of the implemented plan.

He has particular experience in the following industry sectors:

• Automotive: Retail and Aftermarket
• Automotive: Fleet Rental and Management
• Education: University Management
• Electrical: Municipal Lighting Maintenance
• Finance: Life Assurance and Microfinance (Microcredit)

Cameron is a qualified and experienced software engineer, and typically uses information systems and technology to support and enable these operations.   He is competent with the following technologies and approaches:

• Java programming platform and related application development frameworks including Spring and Play
• web application development including DHTML, Rest/HTTP and Angular
• relational database systems including MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL
• the Atlassian JIRA workflow and project management system
• requirements analysis & specification, particularly in the following problem domains: Accounting, Billing,  CRM, Equipment Maintenance, Inventory, Loan Management, Student & Course Management, Vehicle Fleet Management.
• ERP/MIS applications including: Alidata, PHC, FENIX-EDU, Odoo (AKA OpenERP) and Ofbiz.

Contact me:

You are welcome to write in either English or Portuguese.​

Please contact me using one of the methods below:    

• Email: info AT campsie DOT biz
• Cellphone / Whatsapp: (+258 84 734 7500)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-smith-a260904/
• Skype ID: cameron_smith
• Timezone: GMT + 2

Please note: if you use email to contact me for the first time, bear in mind that your email may be treated as "spam".    It may therefore be advisable to use either the contact form below, or one of the other methods set out above.