AARON HAMMON
East Granby,CT
Summary
Information Technology and Supply Chain Management leader looking for position to leverage background and further develop skillsets in both disciplines.
Senior management professional, bringing strategic leadership and operational excellence to drive organizational success. Skilled in project management, team collaboration, and process optimization with keen focus on achieving results. Adept at navigating complex challenges, fostering culture of accountability, and adapting to evolving business needs. Known for strong decision-making, effective communication, and building high-performing teams.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Management Senior Manager
Cigna
Bloomfield, CT
06.2008 - 02.2026
- Chief Strategy and Operations Office (January 2024 - February 2026) Acted as lead of business management for USET, managing a team in charge of financial management and hygiene for the organization
- Managed a delivery portfolio of over 600M to a variance of less than 0.5%.
- Prepared and reviewed current financial position of organization with senior leadership team
- Maintained comprehensive list of financial risks and opportunities and reviewed with appropriate leads
- Regularly partnered with Finance and HR to develop more effective Finance and Resource management
- Worked with our AI COE to develop and “Business Management Persona” to provide insights based on integration with our financial systems
- Technical Operations (June 2022 – January 2024) Managed team in charge of driving efficiencies and enabling delivery for the US Employer Technology (USET) team.
- Led efforts to garner control over our AWS spend, leading to a seven-figure cost avoidance in our organization’s cloud spend
- Streamlined and helped automate our hiring controls process, ensuring that all appropriate approvals and financial diligence actions were performed
- Developed and rolled out process to calculate all-in costs for agile teams
- Reviewed financial drivers, risks, opportunities, and watch items with executive leadership
- Developed process and reporting around our emerging DevOps practice
- Created review process for our job requisitions, ensuring appropriate Diversity and Inclusion recommendations were followed
- Business Management (April 2016 – June 2022) Managed team that acted as business management for Value Based Solutions (VBS) Core Systems (CS) ASGs, and on worked as part Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) team for the Provider Value Stream.
- Acted as liaison between Finance and VBS/CS leadership, undertaking all appropriate financial management activities
- Performed annual baseline and project portfolio planning activities for VBS/CS, and USET organization as a whole
- Drove capacity planning activities for supported organisations
- Led several baseline risk reduction exercises, investigating areas of opportunities for us to reduce baseline spend
- Negotiated delivery terms within contracts between our strategic suppliers and IT for engagements within VBS and CS
- Performed Financial management activities for the Provider Value Stream
- Third Party Management (May 2013 – April 2016) Worked as part of Supply Chain Management team responsible for vendor activities supporting the IT Applications organization within Cigna
- Performed primary Third Party Management of one of the biggest service suppliers within IT, and several suppliers providing high end support
- Negotiated Master Services Agreement for a vendor engagement with an annual spend over $100M
- Helped lead several RFPs and RFIs for various IT engagements, including multi-year, muti-million dollar deals with Specialty Solutions and USET
- Analyzed a number of engagements with niche suppliers and the potential cost saves achieved by moving off of them
- Negotiated new rate cards with several of our management suppliers
- Business Management (May 2011 – May 2013) Supported Enterprise Solutions Group within Cigna IT, responsible for application support for Legal, Human Resources, Finance, and Investment Management
- Assisted with all financial, vendor, resource, and project management activities for the group
- Acted as project management office for organization, coordinating efforts across multiple projects and multiple teams
- Performed annual baseline and project portfolio planning activities for the organization
- Project Management (Jan 2010 – May 2011) Worked as project manager and business manager for group responsible for application support for Claims and Billing & Banking systems
- Managed project to migrate specific areas of the company to virtual desktops
- Investigated chronic slow response issues being experienced by work-at-home users in Service Operations
- Implemented operational reporting for the teams in the group
- Problem Management (Jun 2008 – Jan 2010) Worked as part of team responsible for documentation and research on chronic issues experienced in Cigna’s IT Operations organization
- Supported process intended to communicate true business impact of system outages
- Documented and investigated chronic infrastructure issues
- Supported migration of Problem Management process to Hewlett Packard Service Management application
Business Analysis Intern
Travelers Insurance
Hartford, CT
05.2005 - 12.2007
- Business Analysis (Feb 2006 – Dec 2007) Worked as part of production support team supporting the Personnel Lines line of business for Travelers
- Worked with business analysts and computer programmers in the resolution of incidents
- Facilitated understanding between developers and business customers
- Assisted with the transition of the atrea to a new resource management tool
- IT Help Desk Training (May 2005 – Aug 2005) Assisted team in charge of training help desk staff is use of new Incident management tool, HP Service Desk.
Education
BS - Management of Information Systems
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT01-2008
Skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and SharePoint
Certification
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)- Lean Portfolio Manager Scaled Agile, Inc
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Timeline
Project Management Senior Manager
Cigna
06.2008 - 02.2026
Business Analysis Intern
Travelers Insurance
05.2005 - 12.2007
BS - Management of Information Systems
University of Connecticut