About Mansfield Technologies
A service-disabled veteran-owned company in Mansfield, Ohio, run by people who spent their careers protecting sensitive data and now spend them destroying it properly.
The founder
Chris McDevitt grew up in Hartville, Ohio, and spent ten years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, followed by six years supporting the U.S. Intelligence Community. He has also held technical roles as a federal civilian employee and at Diebold Nixdorf, the ATM and banking-technology company, where every retired machine holds someone's account data. He holds an active security clearance today. That path runs through every place data is supposed to be protected: tactical networks, classified systems, federal agencies, and banking hardware. It taught him how controlled media is tracked from the day it is issued to the day it is destroyed, and how rarely that discipline survives contact with an ordinary IT closet.
If it's smart, it's vulnerable.
Chris is a service-disabled veteran, and Mansfield Technologies is a family business. His father, Dan McDevitt, leads business development after a career in field sales. His wife, Lisa McDevitt, runs the eCommerce side of the business, reselling online the electronics that carry no data-security risk once anything that could hold data has been destroyed. The rest of the team is veterans, National Guard and Reserve members, and former Intelligence Community members who treat your retired hardware the way they were trained to treat classified material.
Mansfield Technologies on LinkedIn“As a veteran-owned business, Mansfield Technologies embodies the principles of dedication, integrity, and hard work. It’s clear that their military background translates into their business practices, resulting in a level of service that is both professional and approachable.”
Our mission
We help good people avoid bad headlines.
Mansfield Technologies exists to destroy the data our clients were trusted with, on their site, in front of them, to the standards the nation's most sensitive programs require, and to recycle what remains the right way.
What we believe
Our theology is Christian with a strong Anabaptist streak from the communities around us, and it shows up as habits more than statements. These are the habits.
- Security over profitEvery computer, phone, and tablet is disassembled and its storage destroyed, no matter what it would have sold for whole. We earn less per device on purpose.
- Witnessed, not promisedDestruction happens where you can see it, on the machine the certificate names. A software wipe asks you to trust a promise; a degausser and a shredder produce something you can hold. We adopt what we can verify and keep it running for decades.
- Plain speechThe Anabaptists refused to swear oaths because an honest word should not need one. Prices are listed, a quote means what it says, and we do not use comfortable words like "certified wipe." If free recycling is fine for your equipment, we say so and lose the sale.
- Treat it like it is classifiedMost of us handled classified material for a living. We handle a hospital’s drives, a bank’s tapes, and a school district’s laptops the same way, whether or not the rules require it.
- Neighbors firstAmerican-made equipment first, allied nations next, nothing from hostile countries. Veterans hired, the business kept in the family, and the towns we serve treated as places we might live, because several of us do.
- Steward what we are givenNothing we destroy goes to a landfill. Parts with no data risk go back into service, boards to a domestic smelter, metal to scrap, all through R2-certified partners with every effort to minimize exports. Machines are bought from makers we can drive to and repaired rather than replaced.
- Faith and familyMansfield Technologies is a family business run on Christian principles: tell the truth, keep your word, treat every client and employee with dignity, and do the work as if it matters to Someone beyond the customer, because we believe it does. Luke 16:10 is our standard: whoever is faithful in very little is faithful also in much. You will not get a sermon from us; you will get a company that means what it says.
What we do
High-security mobile data destruction and IT asset disposition. We are one of very few providers able to perform on-site destruction to NSA/CSS 9-12 and NIST 800-88, we have built sanitization programs for some of the largest technology companies in the world, and what we destroy is recycled through R2-certified partners, with a Certificate of Destruction for every job.
Our home: Mansfield, Ohio
Halfway between Cleveland and Columbus, a city of about 47,000 that built America's kitchens for most of a century and is now building its cyber defenses. Richland County sits at the edge of Ohio's Amish Country, and the Amish and Mennonite way of doing business has shaped ours: a handshake that holds, a fair price stated once, tools bought to last and repaired rather than replaced, and work done well because the neighbor who hired you will see you Sunday.
Mansfield's Air Guard went cyber
In September 2023 the 179th Airlift Wing at Mansfield Lahm retired its C-130s and became the 179th Cyberspace Wing, the first in the Air National Guard. Its 900-plus airmen now support air, space, and cyberspace missions. That announcement is what brought us here: a town with a cyber wing understands why a hard drive has to be destroyed properly.
A city that built things
Laid out in 1808, Mansfield spent a century building America's appliances: Westinghouse employed 8,177 people here in 1955, Tappan co-invented the microwave oven with Raytheon, and Ohio Brass, Mansfield Tire, and the GM stamping plant filled out the boom. The steel mill still runs as Cleveland-Cliffs, Gorman-Rupp still builds pumps here for the world, and today the hospital system, local government, schools, and manufacturers such as Newman Technology and Jay Industries carry the payroll.
The ribbon cutting
Our September 2024 ribbon cutting in Mansfield, with the mayor, county commissioners, and the Richland Area Chamber, and a first look at the trailer.
Watch on YouTubeThings to do near our home
- Ohio State ReformatoryThe Gothic prison where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed.
- Kingwood Center GardensForty-seven acres of gardens around a 1926 mansion.
- Malabar Farm State ParkLouis Bromfield's farm, where Bogart and Bacall were married.
- Richland Carrousel ParkA hand-carved carousel turning downtown since 1991.
- Mohican State ParkCanoeing and camping on the Clear Fork, half an hour south.
- Snow TrailsOhio's first ski resort, on the south edge of town.