Meet the Rutgers sophomore who owns his own computer repair company

He has been tinkering with computers since he was 6 years old

Most of us just started building our resume, but Rutgers sophomore Honson Tran started building his techno-savvy CV when he was just 6 years old. As a matter of fact, his tinkering on computers as a kid eventually led him to build his own computer repair company — Ionx Technologies. The electrical engineering and computer science major were taken up as an apprentice when he was only in 7th grade and was eventually handed responsibility over the shop.

While most of his clients are college students who need phone screen repairs, the store has reached a wider local audience after marketing over summer break.

“I plan on beating the competitors such as Kite and Key and Apple for their prices for repairs. Of course, anything such as a smashed laptop would need a warranty from them, but at least you’re not wasting money trying to replace a screen or fix a virus on a computer or anything minor,” Tran said.

But more than a student and company founder, he is also an entrepreneur. Tran currently holds an internship with College Works Painting, which selects only 2,000 students across the U.S and Canada each year to join.

College Works Painting paints over 10,000 homes annually and each home painted is a $5 donation to Augie’s Quest, a foundation that was started in hopes of finding a cure for ALS.

As part of this organization, Honson is starting up yet another business. He is being forced to learn how to market and manage clients, payroll, and much more. In this sense, the participants start from rock bottom and build all the way to being the CEO of a company.

Over this summer, I will be in the East Brunswick area — or anywhere near Rutgers such as Piscataway and New Brunswick, Somerset, etc. — and take free estimates of anyone that is interested. Painting starts in the summer with a hired crew. I’ll be hiring marketers and painters who are interested over the summer as well for those who are in search of a job,” Tran said.

While trying to get as many houses painted as possible, Tran will still be running his computer and mobile repair shop on the side.

“This is currently the second business I am attempting to start up. However, this internship is taking business to the next level. This is actually the first business that I am running at a large scale with employees, marketers, and with such large sums of money. I’m really excited to learn a lot more about the business and grow as a person through this.”

Tran has set working for Intel, Microsoft, or Google as a future goal. “[I] will most likely be doing chip design or designing brand new products. However, if I have the technical skill to start a company in the tech field, I most definitely will. I will see where life takes me.”

That being said, if you need to find a summer job to pay off some of that tuition or you have a house that needs painting — Tran is your man.

Contact Ionx Technologies here.  

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