Prior to holding provincial office, Ceci served as an alderman on the Calgary City Council, representing Ward 9 from 1995 to 2010.

[1] Ceci was born in 1957 in Toronto, where he lived until 1976,[2] following graduation from local high school Nelson A. Boylen Collegiate Institute.

During this time, he attended the University of Calgary, where he received a master's degree in social work in 1989.

[4][5] In his 2004–2007 term he was a founding member community safety councils in Inglewood-Ramsay and Forest Lawn.

[1] Touted as a star candidate, Ceci ran for the Alberta New Democratic Party in the 2015 Alberta general election for the electoral district of Calgary-Fort, hoping to become the first NDP MLA elected in Calgary since 1993, when Bob Hawkesworth was defeated in the riding of Calgary Mountain View.