Voltron Media
San Antonio, TX 78238
Finding his own voltage
SAN ANTONIO – Electrical runs in J. Martin Rendon’s family. So, when the master electrician started his own company, Voltron Electric, in May of last year, he brought his father and brother on board, too.
Rendon’s father, Victor, is a senior journeyman and has been an electrician for more than 40 years. When he was younger, he would help his father put in plugs and switches during his summer breaks from school.
His father had the idea for them to venture out and do electrical work on their own, and Rendon says that he took a leap of faith. Now, his father is one of his project managers, and his brother, Nestor, a journeyman electrician, is in charge of special systems operations.
At 34 years old, Rendon has a total of six employees and considers himself blessed to have a growing company that he wants to continue to grow. Voltron does approximately 70 percent commercial work, which includes projects such as seafood restaurant Costa Pacifica and five Little Caesars that were ground up construction. He remembers trying to come up with a good name, and one day, thinking of the word “voltage,” he was sitting at a red light when a string of trucks went by with a name on the side that had “tron” as a suffix. “I said one of these days that’s going to be a bunch of Voltron trucks,” recalls Rendon. “ I said that sounds catchy, and that’s where the name emerged.” Before starting the company, Rendon studied electronics at ITT Technical Institute, but instead of soldering components as a technician, he was only replacing them. So, he went through the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union program to become an electrician.
Serving San Antonio and the surrounding area, Voltron Electric does commercial and residential as well as prefab electrical. –mh
