Principal-led delivery
Our founder leads every client engagement. Specialist contractors are brought in based on project needs — you never pay for a bench, and you always get senior talent matched to the problem.
Every engagement led by a 25-year enterprise technology veteran who's been on both sides of the table.
Aetheria Systems isn't a staffing firm that sends the A-team to pitch and the B-team to deliver. Our founder leads every engagement personally, supported by a network of vetted specialists scaled to the project. You get senior expertise from kickoff through go-live.
Meet the founder
Kurt Hamm spent 25 years inside the enterprise technology machine — as a CIO managing a $33M IT budget and 150 staff, as a Chief Administrative Officer running IT, security, HR, and procurement for a state agency during a pandemic, and as a technical strategist for firms like Deloitte, TTEC Digital, and Slalom.
He's led contact center modernizations from Avaya to Amazon Connect. He's implemented Salesforce CRM for case management under fire. He's rebuilt security programs after a massive data breach under congressional scrutiny. He's scaled unemployment call centers from hundreds to thousands of agents when the phones wouldn't stop ringing.
He started Aetheria Systems because he got tired of watching vendors sell fairy tales and deliver nightmares. After decades on both sides — buying technology and building it — he knows exactly where implementations fail: in the space between systems, where nobody owns the integration and everybody owns the blame.
Through Aetheria, every engagement gets the principal. Not a junior consultant reading from a playbook. The person who's done this work, in production, under pressure, when failure wasn't an option.
How we deliver
Our founder leads every client engagement. Specialist contractors are brought in based on project needs — you never pay for a bench, and you always get senior talent matched to the problem.
We've been the CIO evaluating vendors and the consultant pitching solutions. We know what buyers actually need because we've sat in their chair. That means honest scope, realistic timelines, and no surprises.
Everything we deliver must survive production reality — outages, expired tokens, upstream changes. We design for the operations team that gets paged at midnight, not the demo that impresses at noon.
Credentials & certifications
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Eligible for SDVOSB set-aside contracts across federal agencies.
Active registration in the System for Award Management. UEI: VSF4PWWBKME3 | CAGE Code: 17D21 | NAICS: 541512, 541511, 541519, 541611, 518210.
U.S. Army National Guard Intelligence Analyst (E-6). Activated for Desert Storm. Top Secret clearance. The discipline, decisiveness, and mission focus carry into every engagement.
Our Clients
We don't name clients. We describe the scale and complexity of environments where we've delivered results.