![]() Burden, Barbosa and Swiderski are joined by an ever-growing team of dedicated and experienced installers and support technicians. Swiderski has always loved being around computers, and so his transition to Sunrise Smarthome was in some ways destined. Swiderski, prior to Sunrise Smarthome, locally pursued a career in Hospitality. Barbosa has gathered much of his contracting experience through his family, who have been contractors in the Hamptons since he was young. Joining Burden on the management team are Artur Barbosa who oversees design and installation, and Stephen Swiderski, who oversees sales, and Laura Jarrin, who handles customer service and scheduling. Who do you go to when you're faced with those challenges? We wanted to be the company you go to for those sorts of cross-disciplinary challenges." "Not to mention integrating Amazon Alexa, which was completely out of reach for the traditional market. "I'd heard stories about colleagues asking their HVAC company to install a Nest Thermostat, and their reaction was 'what is Nest?' This was a couple years after Google bought the company for $3.2 billion," says Burden. Putting all the equipment in the media closet no longer worked without making some sacrifices (like voice search on Apple TV), and 4K was totally out of the question without extensive rewiring."Īt the same time, Burden observed, new products were hitting the market at a faster and faster pace. "The people I knew who'd spent a lot of money on the big closed systems of yesteryear, like Crestron, were invariably unhappy," said Burden. "They were finding it impossible to integrate new products into their media rooms. ![]() Burden currently serves as Chairman of the Board for the company.īurden was inspired to start Sunrise Smarthome by a number of converging factors in the home technology industry. ![]() Breaking Media publishes the websites Dealbreaker, Fashionista, Above the Law, Breaking Defense and MedCity News. Burden served as CEO of Logicworks from its founding in 1993 until 2011, and continues to serve on the company's Board of Directors.īurden co-founded Breaking Media with Justin Smith, currently CEO of Bloomberg Media, in 2006. Logicworks counts among its clients Thomson Reuters, Evercore, Janus Capital, Bessemer, and Time Inc. Logicworks provides managed services for Amazon Web Services and was recognized by Gartner Research as a leader in their Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Managed Services Providers. Sunrise Smarthome was founded by Carter Burden III, a veteran entrepreneur who previously founded L ogicworks in 1993 and co-founded Breaking Media in 2006. Sunrise Smarthome opened its doors to the public in July 2017 on Main Street in Bridgehampton.
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