Home Tech Automation

The story of Joe Pirillo, the founder of Home Tech Automation: I started as an electrician in May 2002, contracting to various companies and becoming a project manager, overseeing multiple projects. Whilst in this role I also had the privilege of training many apprentices. In Sept. 2006 I started trading as a sole trader under the name of Joe P. Electrical Services. While operating I started a company with one of my workers in Jan. 2008; thus Power Corp Electrical Pty Ltd was created. In my time as a director of Power Corp, we worked on a multitude of jobs from design, to wiring and fit off of new homes, and rewiring of old homes. We were also doing new network installations and offices relocation's within deadlines, including running 3 teams over a 24hr period for two days to complete a 5-day job in 48 hours. This included installing a data network, CCTV, access control, phone system (PABX) and A/V throughout their offices. In 2009 I saw the story on ACA of a family that was about to be torn apart by the death of both their parents due to cancer. They had no money and no way of staying together, when the ACA viewers from around Australia started to donate money to help them. I was so moved by their story that I sent in a email to ACA offering our services to make sure their new home was electrically safe and to install some new lighting. As the job started we saw that the house in which they were going to live was so unsafe electrically, we fully rewired their home, supplied and installed a new alarm and intercom. On the second day working there I started calling all of my contacts, from HPM for switches and power points, Lighting House at Belmore for new lights and Weathercraft air conditioning in Blakehurst. All of these companies either supplied, or supplied and installed all the equipment free of charge. I must admit there were electrical suppliers that we approached which declined to help, and to this day I cannot understand how anyone could say no to such a heart-wrenching catastrophe. May I also say, from that day on we only supported the suppliers that were not heartless.