Cody Bartholomew spent 10 years earning the licenses to open Titan Electric
After a decade working up through Oregon’s electrical licenses, Cody Bartholomew opened Titan Electric in Salem and kept a photo record of the jobs that followed.
Salem, OR
By the end of the day, the hot tub was wired in. Cody Bartholomew had also worked out why the garage outlets kept tripping, with a refrigerator and two freezers running on them, and come up with a fix. He added outlets outside the house and replaced the bathroom fan. “He was professional and left everything tidy,” Kristin T. wrote in a Google review, adding that he was knowledgeable and paid attention to detail. Her photo of the result shows a gray disconnect box on the siding, with flexible conduit running down to the tub.
It was one of the first jobs for Titan Electric, the company Bartholomew opened in Salem, Oregon, at the start of 2026. The decade that came before it, he covers in two sentences on a public profile.
“I started the electrical apprenticeship in 2016 and finished and became a journeyman electrician in 2021,” he writes. “I passed my Oregon electrical supervisor’s test in 2025.”
That is five years as an apprentice and four as a journeyman before the test. Each step left a license behind. State licensing records list him as a general journeyman electrician and a general supervising electrician. He registered Titan Electric as a limited liability company in 2025. The state Construction Contractors Board licensed it two days into 2026, as a residential specialty contractor, and the Building Codes Division lists it as an electrical contractor.
The company is young enough that nearly everything there is to know about it sits in public view: the licenses, a couple of permits, what its customers write and the pictures it takes of its own work. Bartholomew spent a decade collecting the paperwork. He has kept a record of the jobs that followed, too.
The customers who name an electrician in their reviews all name the same one: Cody. Titan Electric works weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., across the middle of the Willamette Valley, from Wilsonville in the north to Albany in the south and from Dallas east to Stayton. Salem, Keizer, Woodburn and Silverton sit in between.
The company’s website describes the work in four words, “new construction, service, and remodel,” and then answers the questions people ask before they let someone open a wall or a panel. Swapping an existing light fixture takes anywhere from 15 minutes for a basic one to a few hours for a large, intricate chandelier, the company writes. “A panel upgrade typically takes 4-8 hours depending on how many loads it is supplying.” Panel labeling is listed as a service of its own, and the company writes that it takes care of the electrical permits itself.
Some of the work is a single problem in a single house. One customer wrote that Bartholomew found the source of an electrical problem in a few minutes and finished the repairs quickly. Another wrote that the work was completed exactly as stated, and a third that he shows up right away.
Some of it is steadier than that. One of the longest reviews comes from a man whose company has dozens of multi-family properties. A neighbor had recommended the electrician. Since then Bartholomew has handled projects across several of the company’s units, some vacant and some with tenants living in them, and the feedback from tenants, the man wrote, has been outstanding. He wrote that Bartholomew listens and explains things clearly, and that his quoting system is clean, fast and easy to understand. Then he singled out the way a job is wrapped up. Every completed job, Tobin M. wrote in a Google review, “comes with photo documentation, which is huge for us.”
Titan Electric wrote back that it was “great to hear that our quoting system is making your job easier,” and that it loved hearing the tenants were happy.
The same habit shows in the photos the company has posted from its first months, which read like a work log. One pairs an old panel with the new one that replaced it. The old panel’s only labels are four strips of tape, two reading HEAT and two reading RANGE. On the new door, the circuit directory is filled in by hand, line by line. Others show a red exit sign lit over the glass doors of an unfinished commercial space and a control box mounted on the side of a round cedar tub. Public permit records add a 100-amp subpanel in a Salem basement.
Several of the pictures show work that was about to disappear. In one photo, lengths of conduit and their boxes are tied into the rebar of a footing form, waiting for the concrete. In another, gray conduit runs along the bottom of a fresh trench to an electrical panel on a post, the dirt piled high at its edge.