Rex Lee, Mba, Icd.D Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Rex is Chief Information & Technology Officer (CITO) at Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC), one of Canada’s most iconic and trusted companies with businesses in retail, owned brands, financial services, REIT, and petroleum all with a brand purpose of “making life in Canada better”. As a key member of the senior executive team, Rex leads a talented group of 1000+ employees, collaborating with global partners to manage and evolve CTC's complete technology landscape encompassing 1700+ retail locations, digital properties, corporate operations, and global facilities.Rex has been instrumental in driving major advances in digital transformation, Agile adoption, cybersecurity, operational efficiency, and analytics & artificial intelligence. In addition to core technology, Rex is actively involved with corporate strategy, enterprise risk, corporate governance, and is a vocal champion of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.In 2023 Rex was awarded the inaugural Canadian Orbie CIO of The Year Award for Large Enterprise and in 2022, Rex was honoured with the CIO of the Year award by the CIO Association of Canada.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Leads a talented technology team of 1000+ individuals and accountable for all aspects of information technology (IT) across the CTC family of companies. Strong focus on tight business collaboration with unified goals and transformation based on new technology advances, team structures and techniques. Responsible for maintaining and modernizing heritage systems while simultaneously delivering new capabilities around Agile Development, DevOps/SRE, Microservices Architecture, Cloud Strategy, Analytics/AI/ML, Digital Transformation and Cyber Security.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Oversees the end-to-end technology evolution and roadmap for all corporate functions, financial systems, retail systems (store, supply chain, merchandising, marketing), back-end integration, digital experiences and advanced analytics. In addition to technology systems, Rex is responsible for the advancement of technology organization, Agile and DevOps technology practices, digital transformation and operating processes to meet the business needs of today and the future.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Accountable for various technology domains including: Digital: eCommerce, Digital Experience Management, Mobile Applications, In-Store Digital Data Enablement: Hadoop / Big Data, Advanced Analytics, Data Warehousing / ETL / Reporting, Business Intelligence, Integration, AI, Event Stream ProcessingBack-Office: Merchandising, Marketing, Sourcing, Software Development CoE, Portals, Advanced SearchInnovation: Full-Stack R&D Lab (UX, Industrial Design, Physical H/W, S/W, Data), Customer Experience Innovations, Product Innovation, Internet of Things (IoT) / Internet of Everything (IoE), Enterprise Architecture

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Lead the overall digital technology strategy, frameworks, architecture, roadmaps, platforms, operations and organizational design for digital transformation at Canadian Tire Corporation. This includes leading several critical technology domains: eCommerce, Loyalty Programs, Digital Content Management, Digital Properties, Technology Innovation, Software Development, Mobile Application Development, and Quality Management

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for strategy, architecture, development, and operations for various IT business solutions including: Business Process Automation (BPA) & Workflow; Social Business, Social Networking, Social Media; Collaboration, Content Management (ECM), Enterprise Search, Portals, eCommerce. Also responsible for shaping operational service delivery models including Business Process Management, Communications, Project Delivery Governance & Methodology, Operational Governance.Recipient of RIM "Honor Award" for outstanding deployment of e-Collaboration ecosystem within RIM.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

The Operations & Business Intelligence group has two mandates. 1) Overall management and operational resilience for technology in wireless and retail business units (includes call centre, retail stores, and billing). This includes systems management, incident management, support, problem resolution, infrastructure planning, pro-active monitoring, & change management. 2) overall management of business intelligence infrastructure for wireless and retail business units. This includes strategic planning, project delivery, application architecture, data architecture and support.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Collaboration Services is a “one-stop shop” that combines the best-practices in face-to-face facilitated collaboration methodologies along with collaborative tech, social media, and social computing. The objectives include 1) providing various facilitated workshops for complex problem solving, 2) Embedding collaboration into the culture to drive innovation and 3) providing strategic direction on next generation of collaboration practices encompassing people, process and technology.Recipient of Bell Breakthrough & Innovation Award

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Mandate to define strategy and tactical plans to unlock collaborative potential, and maximize business value through the creative application of technology and innovation through 3 core objectives. 1) Enable Agile Innovation: Architect systems for future integration & demands for agile innovation. 2) Enable Mass Collaboration: Design how we use technology and to driver greater inclusivity and collaboration and 3) Enable Breakthrough Employee Effectiveness: Re-think employee experiences and end-to-end processes with emphasis on simplicity and value. Functional scope includes Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Data Warehousing, SAP, ERP, Finance, HR, Supply Chain.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Lead the Business Intelligence Services (BIS) group responsible for support, operations and maximizing the utilization of the business intelligence (BI) environment at Bell Canada which includes the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), Geographical Information Systems (GIS), other datamarts & access tools. Functional scope includes: Data Quality, Metadata, Operations, Support, Strategic Application of BI, Ad-Hoc Analysis, Canned Queries & Report development.

Icd.Dep, Directors Education Program

Mba, Strategic Marketing & Management Information Systems

Ba, Administrative And Commercial Studies - Information Studies