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Decision Framework & Technical Research

Built source-backed comparison assets and customer-ready explainers so teams could make defensible platform decisions fast.

Technologies

  • NMM
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Solution Baselines
  • Documentation
  • Enablement

Situation

Teams evaluating platform options needed accurate capability comparisons—not marketing slides—and customer-facing explanations they could stand behind.

Ambiguity during active evaluations was slowing decisions and creating rework.

Role

Researched, validated, and packaged decision-support assets from vendor docs, live findings, and internal knowledge—ready for field use.

Actions

  • Built a capability comparison matrix with documented sourcing and scoring against evaluated alternatives.
  • Produced customer-facing baseline explainer guides (Entra, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams) in HTML and PDF.
  • Corrected capability claims against documented behavior so comparisons held up under scrutiny.

Results

  • Gave teams a credible, source-backed framework for replace-versus-coexist decisions.
  • Cut evaluation ambiguity by pairing data with customer-ready explainers.

Contact

Open to technical operator, cloud engineering, platform, and customer-facing roles. If you have a hard problem, I can probably help—reach out by email or LinkedIn.

brandon.sardelli@gmail.com631-707-5433linkedin.com/in/brandonsardelli