Anderson Hexsel
Senior Manager – Cloud & Platform Architect
Summary
Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Leader with 18+ years of experience spanning enterprise IT, datacenter operations, large-scale cloud migrations, and Azure platform modernization. Currently leading cloud transformation programs for regulated Canadian enterprises at PwC. Trusted advisor to C-suite executives with a consistent record of on-time, on-budget delivery across global engagements.
Experience
- Lead cloud platform operations, designing Azure enterprise architectures, secure landing zones, and hybrid connectivity solutions.
- Provide governance and technical oversight across multiple concurrent cloud programs, ensuring alignment with PwC Global Cloud standards, Canadian data residency requirements, and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance frameworks.
- Serve as senior escalation point for complex architecture decisions involving Azure networking (hub-spoke, Private Link), identity (Entra ID, Conditional Access), and end-to-end DevOps pipelines.
- Mentor and develop a team of cloud architects and engineers; drive practice growth through reusable reference architectures, delivery accelerators, and internal enablement programs.
- Establish cloud operating models and FinOps practices to optimize cost governance across client Azure estates.
- Defined and standardized cloud reference architectures across multiple PwC territories, ensuring consistency with globally approved Azure landing zone patterns and security baselines.
- Led cross-functional teams of up to 15 migration engineers delivering large-scale datacenter-to-Azure transformations (1,200+ servers) using Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, and custom tooling.
- Designed end-to-end architectures, migration wave plans, and proof-of-concepts for enterprise workloads in financial services, energy, and public sector verticals.
- Served as Cloud Evangelist — delivered technical bootcamps, architecture design sessions, and certification workshops to upskill 100+ consultants across Latin America.
- Partnered with Microsoft to co-develop migration methodologies and secure early access to Azure preview features for strategic client programs.
- Managed datacenter consolidation and migration projects involving 400+ physical and virtual servers across multi-tenant hosting environments.
- Coordinated multi-disciplinary teams (compute, storage, networking, security, and facilities) to execute complex cutovers with minimal downtime.
- Developed migration runbooks, risk assessments, and rollback plans; achieved 99.5%+ migration success rate across engagements.
- Introduced structured project tracking and stakeholder reporting, reducing schedule overruns by 30%.
- Designed, deployed, and maintained IT infrastructure for healthcare and hospital clients, including Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, and virtualization (Hyper-V / VMware).
- Led datacenter and application migration projects, ensuring business continuity and compliance with healthcare data-handling requirements.
- Provided Level 3 escalation support and capacity planning for on-premises server, storage, and network environments.
- Built trusted client relationships as primary technical advisor, consistently retained across multi-year managed-services contracts.
Education
FIAP – Brazil
Bachelor of Business Administration · 2008–2011
Skills
- Cloud & Architecture
- Azure, Landing Zones, CAF, Hub-Spoke, Private Link, Cloud Security, Entra ID, Key Vault
- DevOps & IaC
- Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Docker, AKS, Helm
- Leadership
- Cloud Governance, FinOps, Executive Advisory, Agile / Scrum, Waterfall, DC Migration
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Languages
- Portuguese — Native
- English — Advanced
- Spanish — Intermediate