About

I'm Murdo. I work at Shopify as a Senior Business Operations Lead. Before that, I spent nearly a decade at KPMG delivering strategic digital projects for clients like Walmart, TD, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Scottish Government.

I'm interested in the opportunities new technology creates and the systems behind great work. I'm originally from Scotland and now live in Toronto with my wife, two kids, and our chihuahua.

View my resume. I’ve set up a Model Context Protocol server that allows LLMs to query structured data about me - from my bio to my project history.

An RSS feed for my site is available here.

Speaking

2018 · 10 Future of Retailing lecture at Heriot-Watt University

2017 · 06 Humanizing Customer Insights presentation and panel at the CIH Housing Conference

2016 · 06 Blockchain's Potential presentation at a Scottish Financial Enterprise Executive Briefing

Publications

2022 · 04 Strategic Blockchain Use Cases report for KPMG

Elsewhere

You can find me online:

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This site is minimalist by design. I write in Markdown, convert to HTML, and publish directly from my iPhone or MacBook.

It uses a lightly customized version of water.css. I feature the aerospace variant of international orange #FF4F00 as my accent color.