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Frederick Book

IT Systems & Support · Infrastructure & Leadership

29+ years keeping IT reliable and teams effective — enterprise endpoint management, Active Directory, and end-user support, with the leadership to run it. From an Army electronic-maintenance platoon to a 1,600-endpoint campus.

U.S. ARMY SFC/E-7 (RET.) · VETERAN CIVILIAN IT TEAM LEAD · 1,600+ ENDPOINTS FCC AMATEUR RADIO · GENERAL

Professional Summary

IT systems and support professional with 29+ years of progressive technical and leadership experience spanning enterprise endpoint management, Active Directory administration, end-user support, configuration management, and Information Assurance. Led a college technical-services team responsible for 1,600+ endpoints across 80+ classrooms; administered enterprise Microsoft Intune MDM; and served 23 years as a senior Army NCO and federal civilian technician. Retired Sergeant First Class (E-7) and federal civilian Wage Leader (WL-11); Veterans' Preference eligible. Known for developing people, documenting process, and making complex technology simple for the people who depend on it.

Professional Experience

Technical Services Team LeadRichland Community College
Aug 2023 – Jun 2025
  • Led the Technical Services team — full-time technicians and student workers — owning hiring, training, scheduling, and performance management.
  • Maintained 1,600+ endpoint computers across 80+ classrooms plus college servers — full infrastructure responsibility for reliability, imaging, and support.
  • Administered Active Directory, server uptime, system imaging, software deployment, and end-user support across the campus.
  • Managed the full classroom AV stack at scale — projectors, sound systems, and document cameras across all 80+ rooms.
Information Systems Support SpecialistMacon County Health Department
Aug 2020 – Sep 2022
  • Administered enterprise Microsoft Intune MDM: device enrollment, compliance-policy deployment, configuration profiles, and application deployment.
  • Enrolled 250+ machines per month at peak during COVID-19 contact-tracing operations — scaling endpoint provisioning under critical time pressure.
  • Managed Active Directory users, devices, group policy, and OU structure; authored SOPs for endpoint provisioning.
Electronic Maintenance Chief (SFC/E-7) & Wage Leader (WL-11)Illinois Army National Guard — Title 32
1994 – 2017 · 23 yrs
  • Senior NCO over an electronic-maintenance platoon and Federal Wage System team lead over full-time civilian shop staff — led, trained, and mentored soldiers and civilian technicians across geographically dispersed units statewide.
  • Primary hardware-maintenance and support authority for STAMIS platforms (ULLS-G / ULLS-A); supported the statewide transition to GCSS-Army (SAP-based ERP) with training and field-level support during rollout.
  • As State Calibration Coordinator, maintained accountability and scheduling for 6,000+ pieces of equipment — large-scale IT-asset-management and lab-operations leadership.
  • Performed COTS hardware fielding and quality assurance during a major enterprise technology refresh; enforced configuration management and Information Assurance (DoD/NSA) compliance. Two combat deployments; medically retired 2017.
Bus Driver / IT Solutions ContributorSangamon Valley CUSD #9
Jun 2025 – Present
  • Identify and implement practical technology improvements for aging district systems while serving in a primary transportation role — applying enterprise IT judgment in a small-district environment.

Ongoing Technical Practice

VIRT Proxmox Homelab

Production-grade HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 running Proxmox virtualization with multiple LXC containers and VMs.

NET Self-Hosted Network

UniFi gateway, WireGuard/Tailscale remote access, Caddy reverse proxy with SSL across a segmented LAN.

AV Live Production

Church AV / live production with ProPresenter and Blackmagic ATEM switching — real-world AV at scale.

RF Amateur Radio (N9MRQ)

General-class operator; Meshtastic/LoRa and SDR experimentation — RF and networking convergence.