Our People

The Frontier Pro Culture
Frontier Pro Services is committed to a company-wide culture of respect, integrity, and professional development. We empower our people to get the job done right, on time, every time. We deliver on our Mission of Excellence by:

>	Hiring top-caliber technicians, supervisors, and managers
>	Providing regular, on-going training of our industry best-practices honed through years of field experience
>	Equipping each team with the best technologies and tools available

Our engagement teams are empowered to make responsible, accurate decisions to optimize the performance of your wind farm. They have the knowledge, experience, and accountability to run your wind farm like they own it, ensuring each job is done right, on time, every time.

Frontier Pro wind turbine technicians are extremely responsive to the immediate and long-term needs of asset managers and field engineers. As a mobile work force, we provide reliable, quality, on-demand service when you need us most.

Frontier Pro Technicians
The Frontier Pro team of experts has been maintaining wind farms for over two decades. We have a wealth working knowledge in mechanics, hydraulics, composites/blade repair, and controllers from the successful service of most turbines.

Frontier Pro Leadership
Frontier Pro Services is led by an executive team of wind industry pioneers, with a depth of experience extending from the earliest days of wind and into areas including industrial manufacturing, oil, gas, and technology development.

Jack Wallace Jr., Wind Turbine Technical Advisor
Jack Wallace has been maintaining wind farms since 1985. He has performed operations and maintenance services for more than 30 different types of turbines from over 14 different manufacturers. Mr. Wallace has physically worked on turbines in 4 states and 3 European countries. He has reviewed factory work at Vestas, Siemens, Nordex, Carter, LM and Knight and Carver.

Prior to Frontier Pro Services, Jack Wallace has been the wind farm operator for Energy Unlimited, Inc.’s 25.5MW San Gorgonio Wind Project. Mr. Wallace’s responsibilities included hiring and training technicians, and maintaining over 400 turbines. During Mr. Wallace's seven year tenure, plant availability increased from 90% to 98%, due to his maintenance, inspections, and scheduling. Before joining Energy Unlimited, Mr. Wallace co-founded Tech A Inc. providing contract labor for turbine upgrades and maintenance services. Clients included Zond Systems, Seawest San Gorgonio, Inc, Seawest Altamont Inc., Viking Capital Services, R. Lynette and Associates, Fayette Energy Corporation and New World Power.

Mr. Wallace has advanced technical training in: welding, lubrication and bearing/geartooth wear; high voltage safety; air conditioning, refrigeration, heating and solar energy repair. Mr. Wallace is the co-inventor of the Variblade, a variable length wind turbine rotor being developed by Frontier Wind, which promises to cause substantial increases in wind turbine production as compared to conventional wind turbine rotors.

Roger Brandt,  General Manager
Mr. Brandt has spent the past 25 years in management roles in the construction equipment distribution industry, a light industrial equipment dealer rollup and a startup as a Regional Franchise owner of a national career coaching franchise.  His successful experience in establishing equipment dealer parts, service and sales locations, as well as acquisitions and startups, has given him a sound foundation to provide leadership for Frontier Pro Services in the Wind Turbine Maintenance industry.

Before joining Frontier Pro Services, Mr. Brandt spent five years successfully building a team of 17 franchisees under his California Regional Franchise license agreement with The Entrepreneur’s Source (TES). 

Mr. Brandt also served as President of one of the country’s top ten rental equipment companies, Brambles Equipment Services Inc., the equipment rental unit of the Australian firm, Brambles Industries Limited.  Prior to his success at Brambles, Mr. Brandt gained significant experience establishing and operating construction & mining equipment service dealerships for San Francisco based Morgan Equipment Company in the Middle East, Papua New Guinea and as General Manager of a $200M Caterpillar dealership in Australia.  Mr. Brandt earned a BA in Economics from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN.

Robert G. Kelly, Vice President
Robert Kelly has more than 15 years senior management experience in marketing, management consulting, and business development. Prior to joining Frontier Pro Services, Mr. Kelly was Managing Partner with Ask for Something, Ltd, a global sales and marketing firm serving the energy and technology sectors, where he was responsible for revenue generation, major account development, and business operations management. Previously as VP of Global Marketing and Alliances for international customer technology leader, Infogain, he built and managed pipeline exceeding $200 million. Mr. Kelly also built a global marketing and consulting team across Infogain’s offices across three continents, and he led the company’s M&A activities with global private equity firms and business partners.

Mr. Kelly has also been a director with HP Capital Markets, private equity affiliate of Allianz Group, leading business development and financial planning across a portfolio of energy and technology companies in the United States, Europe and China. Mr. Kelly is an alumnus of University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University where he completed his MBA.