Based in
Seattle, WA
Recognition
Richter Scholar
Technical Solutions Manager

Spencer
Strei.

Technical program leader with 5+ years at Microsoft - leading agile delivery of AI and automation tools across finance, procurement, and operations. Supply chain foundations.

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$28M in payouts protected
Anomaly detection across a ~$350M incentives program
$20M competitive bid tool
Forecasting & sourcing interface for indirect procurement
1,700+ hours saved / year
AI email assistant · #1 Copilot adoption, division-wide
Lean + AI
Product delivery
5+
Years at Microsoft
AZ-900
Azure Certified
$1B+
Deals de-risked
Spencer Strei
Seattle
Washington
Richter
National Scholar
Spencer Strei at Blanca Lake, Washington
Microsoft · Technical Solutions Manager
Univ. of Tennessee
About Me

Shipping products that move the business

I'm Spencer, a technical program leader at Microsoft with 5+ years across finance, procurement, and operations. I lead agile delivery of AI and automation tools from concept through launch, partnering with engineering, design, and business teams to ship products people actually use.

My background is supply chain (BSBA). It's where I learned how to find friction, model the system, and build the thing that fixes it. Proven outcomes: $28M in protected payouts, $20M in targeted savings, and thousands of hours recovered.

Stakeholder Management Agile / SDLC & Release Mgmt UAT & Go-Live Readiness Change Management Process Optimization AI / Automation Solutions Supply Chain Operations SAP
University of TennesseeUniversity of Tennessee · BSBA Supply Chain, Stats Minor · 3.95 GPA
AzMicrosoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
PProsci® Taking Charge of Change
R. Gene Richter Scholar, premier national supply chain award
Work History

Where I've delivered impact

Microsoft 2020 – Present
Technical Solutions Manager
FinOps AI Lead · Finance Operations · Seattle, WA Oct 2023 – Present
$28M protected $20M savings 1,700+ hrs saved
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  • Protected $28M in payouts across a ~$350M incentives program by scoping requirements, developing an anomaly detection system, presenting to senior leadership, and transitioning to engineering for enterprise implementation.
  • Developed a $20M savings-targeted competitive bid analysis tool for indirect procurement, delivering a forecasting model and interface enabling managers to evaluate supplier bids and drive sourcing decisions.
  • As FinOps AI Lead for Finance Operations, I drive AI fluency division-wide: hosting monthly workshops and live Copilot demos, advising teams on high-impact use cases, and running a FinOps AI hackathon, earning #1 Copilot adoption across the division.
  • Owned end-to-end delivery of an AI email assistant (requirements, UAT, deployment, and change-management rollout), saving 1,700+ hours annually.
  • Cut $700K in payroll errors by redesigning a multi-vendor leave-of-absence workflow and automating flagging and forms.
Technical Program Manager
Finance Data & Experiences · Miami, FL Mar – Oct 2023
170+ users P&L variance UI
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  • Owned full project lifecycle of a platform for 170+ users: requirements, sprint management, UAT, launch, and training, managing dependencies across design, engineering, and business teams.
  • Designed variance visualization methodology and automated commentary for a P&L analysis tool.
  • Co-led global building utilization forecasting analysis, delivering data-driven recommendations to senior leadership.
Operations Program Manager
Global Field Operations · Miami, FL Sep 2021 – Feb 2023
$1B+ in deals 45% time saved
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  • Owned the Southeast US deals program, de-risking $1B+ in deals by navigating ambiguous requirements across legal, finance, and compliance as sole operations partner to a 35+ person sales team.
  • Reduced pre-billing processing time 45% and lowered disputed revenue by leading a capstone workflow analysis, identifying concurrency opportunities to recommend engineering and ops improvements.
  • Drove 10% efficiency gains by leading UAT testing, defining go/no-go criteria, and managing feature prioritization for a Deal Management Portal processing a multi-billion dollar pipeline.
Operations PM Intern
Advertising Operations · Remote May – Aug 2020
$38K saved 95% yield
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  • Saved 200+ hours and $38K annually by engineering an automated credit adjustment workflow handling $61M in transactions, achieving a 95% first-pass yield improvement.
Supply Chain Foundations

Where it all started

My background is supply chain - it's the foundation behind every product I ship today. Before Microsoft, I learned it in the field: production scheduling in SAP at a CPG plant, indirect procurement at a U.S. specialty pharma, and merchandising abroad in London.

Fortnum & Mason
Piccadilly · est. 1707 · British luxury retailer
Merchandising & Supply Chain Intern
London, UK 🇬🇧 Spring 2019
  • Selected via Smith Global Leadership Scholars, a competitive cohort placing UTK students into international supply chain roles.
  • First exposure to cross-border fulfillment, trade, and global stakeholder coordination at one of London's most storied retailers.
Global fulfillment Merchandising Trade
Colgate-Palmolive
Hill's Pet Nutrition · CPG Manufacturing
Supply Chain Planning Intern
Morristown, TN Summer 2019
  • Reduced inventory 16% ($85K savings) by analyzing ~600 materials in SAP MM across demand variability, safety stock, reorder frequency, and warehouse utilization.
  • Trained 16 team members on a new production scheduling system, saving 8 hrs/week in planning overhead.
SAP MM Demand planning Production scheduling
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals
U.S. specialty pharma · Regulated industry
Procurement Intern
Marlborough, MA Summer 2021
  • Supported indirect procurement operations and vendor management at a U.S. specialty pharma, an early hands-on exposure to regulated-industry sourcing.
  • Learned how compliance, quality, and supplier risk shape procurement decisions in a regulated environment.
Indirect procurement Vendor mgmt Regulated sourcing
Also: Analytics Intern at Reviewbox (early-stage retail analytics startup, later acquired by Talkwalker), 2020.
Recognition

Selected achievements

Eight  selected entries
Hackathon
Chief of Staff Agent
Microsoft 2025 Hackathon
Built an agentic AI executive workflow assistant; placed among top entries in the company-wide hackathon.
AI Enablement
FinOps AI Lead
Microsoft · Finance Operations
Finance Operations' AI enablement lead. I host monthly workshops and live Copilot demos for GMs and teams, advise on high-impact use cases, and ran a FinOps AI hackathon, lifting AI-agent comfort 60%+ across the org.
Miami Hack Week demo video
YouTube · Demo Watch ↗
Hackathon
Top-3 at Miami Hack Week
Microsoft
Led a 7-person team to a top-3 Android Auto clickable prototype in a competitive 5-day internal hackathon.
Smith Global Leadership Scholars, Haslam College of Business
Haslam · UT Program ↗
Honors Program
Smith Global Leadership Scholar
Haslam College of Business · University of Tennessee
A selective three-year integrated honors program (~25 scholars per cohort) built around international business, leadership, and professional growth: cohort honors courses, an Executive-in-Residence, and business site visits. The program includes a semester in London and an international internship; I used my placement to intern at Fortnum & Mason.
Leadership
President, CSCMP
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals · UT Chapter
Led the University of Tennessee student chapter of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, driving professional development, industry networking, and member programming.
Recognition
#1 Copilot Adoption
Microsoft Finance Operations
Led Finance Ops to the top-ranked Copilot adoption across all divisions by championing generative AI at scale.
Competition
1st Place, Conexus Indiana Case Competition
Conexus Indiana
Won the bachelor's-degree track with a 4-person UT team; 150+ students from 27 schools solved a real-world business case in 24 hours.
Press release ↗
Contact

Let's connect

Whether you're exploring a collaboration, have an opportunity, or just want to talk AI and operations - I'd love to hear from you.

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spencerstrei@gmail.com
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Core skills
Stakeholder Mgmt Agile / SDLC & Release Mgmt UAT & Go-Live Readiness Change Management Process Optimization AI / Automation Solutions Supply Chain Ops SAP
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