During a community service project at the Baltimore Community ToolBank last October, Noah Smock and Matt Velderman got talking about tech.
As they were building cubicles, Velderman, who is the director of marketing for platforms and innovation at Stanley Black & Decker, mentioned to Smock, who is the Pigtown-based ToolBank’s executive director, that there was a platform among the company’s more recently developed tools that could be useful. With the nonprofit checking in and out lots of different tools and supplies to the community all the time, Velderman saw a way for DEWALT Tool Connect to help.
DEWALT, which is owned by Stanley Black and Decker and has a base in Towson, developed the inventory management system in 2015 to allow folks to track tools with bluetooth enabled tracker tags and batteries, as well as a corresponding app. The offer to pilot the customizable platform showed one of Baltimore’s prime corporate citizens offering a bit of its ingenuity for a local nonprofit.
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