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Meet Our Team
Executive Officers
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Gary K. Weddle – President & Owner
Gary has been in the electrical industry for over four decades. He started as a shop hand while in high school delivering materials to projects at night and then working weekends on jobs. From digging ditches to becoming an apprentice, a lead man then a journeyman electrician. He has worked as a service technician then job foreman. He has held a Masters License since 1998. After obtaining his Masters he served as a labor superintendent, project manager, senior PM, vice president and currently is the president and general partner of Masters Electrical Services, LTD.
Gary brings those years of electrical experience to our firm with extensive knowledge and experience in the commercial and industrial project management practice. Currently he oversees all day to day activities of the company. He works closely with the estimating & service departments projecting bidding trends to remain competitive in today’s market. With our project management team, he is available to answer questions and guide his team in serving our clients and customers to the best of our ability.
By consistently incorporating new methods of project cost coding, job set ups, and project budgeting, along with performing the day to day tasks as president, Gary is always searching for ways to improve MES far into the future.
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Annette Weddle – Vice President & Owner/Controller
Annette has been in the electrical financial industry for over twenty years. Previously, she worked in the banking industry for over seventeen years. While there she worked in all areas of banking. Annette currently is responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting here at MES. She is our financial controller who acts as the head of accounting and prepares all company financial reports. Her responsibilities as controller included day-to-day processing of accounts payables & receivables, all company collections, and franchise and federal tax compliance.
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Office Administration
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Alyssa Spaw – Human Resources and Office Manager
Alyssa is a 2010 graduate from Texas State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in business management. Alyssa worked as an office/HR assistant for MES for four years, while attending college, before becoming HR manager. She has held the HR manager position since 2010 and is responsible for labor allocation, payroll, and employer compliance. Other responsibilities include monthly contractor billings, overseeing company insurance, employee relations and benefits as well as company advertising, promotion, and events.
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Melissa Meeley – Office Administrator
Melissa, or Missy, has been working with our company for six years as our office administrator. She brings to her position an associate degree in business and 30+ years of human resources, administrative and supervisory experience from the retail, hotel, and manufacturing industries. Her responsibilities include office inventory, directing phone calls, assisting with payroll, benefits, 401k, accounting, and other administrative tasks on a day-to-day basis.
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Jacklyn Villanueva – Accounts Receivable Administrator
Jacklyn, or Jackie, has worked for our company for over 6 years. She is a graduate from Career Point College with a certification in accounting and she is knowledgeable in QuickBooks, payroll, and accounts receivable/payable. Throughout her time at Masters, she has been trained in various areas of the company but now acts as accounts receivable administrator. Along with other tasks she assumes our oilfield billings, manages the company’s fleet fuel, and issues proper updated insurances throughout the scope of all projects.
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Office Administration
Andrea Reiley – Accounts Payable Administrator
Andrea, or Andi, started at MES part-time in high school learning the business dynamic for about 2 years. She then went on to work in the childcare industry as a childcare professional. Andi obtained her CDA certification in early childhood development and worked as a teacher with children between the ages 6 weeks-12 years old. After 5 years in this profession she decided to return to MES and resume a business career. Andi was recently hired as our office administrative assistant and some of her responsibilities include accounts payable and receivable, field and HR compliance, and other various administrative tasks.
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Jennifer Weddle – Project Coordinator
Jennifer graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 with a Bachelor of Corporate Communications degree. Since graduating she has worked for HD Supply facilities maintenance, both as a training specialist and a senior account manager.
As our new project coordinator, Jenn works alongside project managers. She plays an integral part in completing administrative paperwork to start and close out jobs. Jenn communicates with outside vendors to facilitate submittal processes, manage delivery schedules, create O&M documents, and anything else needed as projects evolve.
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Estimating
Justin Weddle – Estimator
Justin graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in city planning. Throughout high school and college, he worked his summers with our company and started full-time as an estimator upon his graduation from college. He has spent multiple years working in the field learning the industry hands-on to become a well-rounded employee for MES. Now estimating for us for over a decade, he specializes in design- build projects, helping GC’s set construction budgets based on our past project data, as well as day-to-day bidding of all size commercial projects.
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Mike Riley - Estimator
Mike has been invested in the electrical trade since 1987, and a journeyman electrician since 1993. Mike has been employed with our firm for over twenty years and served as a large project supervisor. He also served as a project manager for two years, gaining management skills along the way. His expertise in managing projects in the field and proficiency for assessing all size projects led to his promotion as an estimator. Mike is one of our leading estimators and bids a large range of projects on a day-to-day basis. Some of his projects include schools, surgical centers, finish outs for existing construction and other various commercial and industrial sites.
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Rick Spaw – Estimator
Rick has been in the electrical industry for over forty years. He received his journeyman license in 1980 and began working and running a variety of projects on the San Antonio military bases before transitioning to the industrial field. His background in industrial work ranges from cement plants, steel mills, water, and wastewater treatment plants. Rick has held his master’s license since 1998, and has been a project superintendent, project manager, and estimator for both commercial and industrial electrical projects and now brings this expertise to our company. He is experienced in handling jobs ranging from small service to multimillion-dollar projects. For the past 20 years and currently his focus has been on estimating and design bids.
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Project Management
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Clint Mergele - Project Manager
Clint graduated from Texas A&M in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Development. He initially joined the MES team as an assistant project manager in 2008 and has since worked his way up to senior project manager. Currently he manages many of our jobs ranging from small finish-outs to multi-million-dollar projects handling all change orders, submittals, and O&M’s closeout documents for each job he manages. He also works in conjunction with the general contractor’s project management team for day-to-day scheduling. Clint and our labor superintendents discuss all projects every day to properly maintain our workforce on our projects to meet GC schedules.
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Josh Spaw – Project Manager
Josh is a 2009 graduate from Texas Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology and has been with our company since 2007. Josh started out as a project manager assistant and then progressed to the company Purchasing agent. He handled all purchasing, shipping, receiving, and all daily material orders for all jobs for nine years. He has since moved to Project Management. Josh manages projects ranging from 100k to 1.5M and handles all submittals, O&M’s, change orders, subcontractors, and material for each of his jobs. He also works in conjunction with our general superintendents and general contractor teams for day-to-day scheduling and manning of his projects.
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Project Management
Morgan Hallmark - Service Manager, Small Projects, & Oil Field
Morgan manages all day-to-day operations in both our service department as well as our oil field division of our business. This includes bidding of projects, scheduling of manpower, and project invoicing. Morgan has been in the trade since 1996 and attained his journeyman’s license in 2005. He also has an extensive collection of control and programming certifications including Allen Bradley (RS Logix 5, 500, 5000, GuardLogix, and Powerflex 750), and Hydraulics. In addition to his oilfield management, he acts as estimator of small to mid-sized projects for our Special Projects Division. Morgan also acts as a commercial and industrial project manager for select projects.
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BIM Coordination
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Dylan Weddle – BIM/CADD Coordinator
Dylan has been working for Masters part time since he was a sophomore in high school. He then attended The University of Texas at San Antonio where he graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Science Management where he learned many types of programs such as Revit, Navisworks, Microsoft project, and AutoCAD. Since then he has become our full time BIM/CADD coordinator and continues to work with our PM’s, estimators, foreman and our Prefab department to make sure jobs are completed as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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Purchasing Department
Christopher Brannon – Purchasing Manager
Chris started his career in the electrical trade in 1999 as an electrical apprentice. He earned his Journeyman license in 2012, and started working for Masters Electrical Services that same year. Chris spent his first 7 years with Masters in the Service Department. Due to Chris’ attention to detail and superior workmanship, he was promoted to the Quality Control department.
Chris was again promoted in 2021 to Purchasing Agent. His duties include reviewing PO requests from the field, sending RFQs out for bid, awarding vendors orders, then ensuring accurate and timely deliveries to our various job sites.
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Labor Superintendents
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Perry Winchester – General Superintendent
Perry began his electrical career with Masters as an apprentice in 1999, received his Journeyman license in 2002 and his Masters license in 2013. Perry has been one of our large project foremen since 2004 and has completed a diverse portfolio of projects for Masters ranging from $150,000 to 4.4 million in contract value. Some of his completed projects include a major renovation of The Shops at Rivercenter, Univision Television and Radio new studio building and the Bexar County Adult Probation Office. Perry also has experience in LEED construction completing Broadway Bank Cheever Building and Cibolo Green Elementary (NEISD). Perry is now a General Superintendent for Masters, working with Project Managers, Job Superintendents and General contractors to schedule manpower and materials, and to review project documents to help ensure a prompt and professional installation. Perry also helps facilitate quality control measures to guarantee the accuracy of our work at the completion of each project, making sure it meets the highest industry standards.
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Lonnie Harper – General Superintendent
Lonnie started in the electrical industry in 1988, where he attended apprenticeship school at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas. He worked on the industrial side in chemical and gas plants for five years before earning his Journeyman license in 1993. Lonnie has been with Masters since 1995, and has been a huge asset to our company. He has successfully completed many types of projects such as schools, hospitals, banks, historical city halls, police stations, and many more ranging in from $100,000 to 2.5 million in contract value. Lonnie is well rounded in managing small crews to teams of 50 employees. He was recently promoted to general superintendent and works closely with project managers, job superintendents, and general contractors to schedule manpower, layouts, equipment, and material.
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Safety Department
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Matthew Barillet – Safety Director
Matt Barillet has work for Masters for 13 years. He was a foreman in the oilfield where he worked on building production facilities and installing production equipment. One of his main duties included making sure equipment was installed correctly and timely. Recently, an opening for Safety Director became available, and Matt was eager to apply for and take on the position. He has a vast knowledge of the industry’s strict safety procedures and guidelines from working in the oil field. Matt chose to take on the job not only to gain more knowledge, but also to learn various elements of this profession. As the Safety Director he will ensure the safety of all employees and keep safety standards high. Other responsibilities of our safety director include OSHA compliance, reporting injuries and accidents, facilitating safety training, and monitoring company vehicle usage.
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Warehouse Management
Jay Garza – Prefabrication Supervisor
Jay Garza began his career in the electrical industry over thirteen years ago as an electrical apprentice, and quickly progressed to running underground heavy equipment on numerous commercial, industrial and oil field job sites. He became employed with our company eleven years ago and acted as Oilfield underground foreman for several years. He was then transitioned to prefabrication, housed here in our warehouse, three years ago when the company started its implementation to streamline efficiency on large projects. Jay works concurrently with project managers, field job foreman and his own employees to ensure the prefabrication process operates effortlessly. He also mentors and trains most new hires that start at our most fundamental level, in proper electrical installation and knowledge of electrical parts.
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Warehouse Management
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Brad Gauthier – Warehouse Manager
Brad has been in the electrical trade for 18 years. He started at Masters Electric in early 2013 as an apprentice. Before applying to Masters, Brad worked at an AC supply house and electrical supplier where he held positions in their warehouse, Sales Department, and in Management.
Brad was promoted to Warehouse Manager in 2021. He oversees receiving, storage, and shipping of products. He manages inventory logs of all product entering or exiting the warehouse, as well as scheduling deliveries to all job sites.
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Fleet Management
Kyler Spaw – Fleet Manager & Mechanic
Kyler began his employment with our company in the oil field in 2014. Since then, he has specialized in under-groundwork. For the past 5 years Kyler has also been the lead on Musco sports lighting projects. In 2022, he was transferred into our mechanic shop to pursue his interest in vehicle and equipment maintenance as well as manager our fleet of vehicles. In addition, Kyler obtained his Class A CDL for delivery and vehicle purposes. He is responsible for all repairs and maintenance on all company vehicles, equipment, and trailers.
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Quality Control
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Jaime Pawelek – Quality Control Supervisor
Jaime started as an apprentice with Masters Electric in 2000. By 2004 he had obtained his Journeyman license, becoming a Foreman, and running his own jobs.
In 2020 Jaime was promoted to Quality Control Supervisor. He has excelled in this position and ensures projects are thoroughly vetted before completion. His process includes preparing each project for inspections, MEG testing feeder wires, confirm wires are properly torqued on panels, verifies circuits for panels and panel schedules, creating punch lists and a myriad of other tasks.
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