Fred Lee
Greater Chicago Area, United States
Chief Technology Officer at PartsSource Inc. | Chief Technology Officer ➤ CTO ➤ Visionary Leadership | Solution Driven | Growth and Innovation | Change Management | Product and Platform Evolution | Revenue and Efficiency Maximizing
Summary
As an innovative and solution-driven executive, I've experienced repeated success executing technology roadmaps to shape an organization's overarching vision. Throughout my career, I've asked defining questions, challenged status quo, and driven top-performing engineering teams to capture market-leading positions in the ever-evolving technology sector. My leadership style centers around building an engaging and flexible team atmosphere to confront conventional thinking, inspire creativity, and engineer innovation. By integrating an intuitive solution mindset, my team has realized peak business goals with outcomes translating to scalable growth opportunities. I'm intellectually agile and hold a deep fluency in web, mobile, data, and infrastructure technologies. I'm also a confident presenter, active listener, and encouraging mentor who readily recognizes individual excellence. My core strengths include: 🔹 Leadership: Motivates a world-class, top-performing team with accountability and productivity benchmarks 🔹 Operations: Strong business acumen with repeated success delivering innovative products and services 🔹 Problem Solving: Collaborative problem solver; presents connected data to support decisions and strategy 🔹 Change Management: Transforms organizational technology roadmap to align with tomorrow’s vision
Chief Technology Officer
PartsSource Inc.
1 Apr 2023 - Present
3yrs 4mos
Chicago, Illinois, United States
PartsSource's mission is to "Ensure healthcare is always on." Recruited to deliver technology leadership over infrastructure, platform, marketplace, and operations. Managing Engineering, Product, Design, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, and Enterprise Technology.
Chairperson of the Board
8th Light
1 Jan 2020 - Present
6yrs 7mos
Chicago, Illinois, United States
🔹 Served as Board Chairman through COVID uncertainty then subsequent growth. 🔹 Lead Board meetings, and manage other Board members. Deliver performance reviews and feedback to CEO. 🔹 Strategize on financial analysis, marketing processes, compensation governance, and organization vision.
Chief Technology Officer
Amount
1 Jun 2021 - 30 Apr 2023
1yr 10mos
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Recruited to deliver technology leadership over infrastructure for platform offering end-to-end solutions for major industry leaders. Manage and mentor 300+ individuals in Engineering, Product, Design, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, and Enterprise Technology. Foster culture of inclusion and idea-sharing to motivate and inspire ambitious team performance. Own technology roadmap and drive initiatives to position company on forefront of changing technology landscape. Pursue new processes to boost competitive and engineering advantage. Engage with Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer to define short- and long-term strategic plans and elevate business value. Manage budget. 🔹 Identified opportunities for internal improvement and championed changes, including company culture, employee empowerment, technological efficiency, workflow processes, cost savings, and daily productivity. 🔹 Accelerated talent acquisition by working with Human Resources in developing strategies to gain thriving workforce. 🔹 Transformed company into a product-led organization and served as guardrail to proposed ideas and changes, capitalized upon analytical and technological insight to weigh viability of change and recommend next course-of-action. 🔹 Led efforts to converge multiple platforms into one through systematic approach with efforts reducing redundancy, streamlining operations, and simplifying staffing. 🔹 Headed technical and financial due diligence of company acquisition, working with top-level peers to finalize success.
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