Thomas Lansing

Head of Product @ Reclamation Factory

About

Salmon fishing → climate entrepreneurship → solar → Carnegie Mellon → product design/management.Product and service designer with experience defining market opportunities & building businesses to fit. - New product development (all the fancy frameworks)- Connecting design decisions with customer reality (user research at all stages)My recipe for winning products is simple: Drive clarity in strategy and goals, and make sure people are working well as a team. I have work experience in solar photovoltaic technical design, commercial fishing, B2B & B2C sales/marketing, online commerce, real estate investing, and software design (UI, Ux).My persistent interests seem to be in solar energy, climate-tech, visual art, workplace & service design, and science fiction. The degree is a Master of Integrated Innovation for Products & Services (MIIPS) which meets at the intersection of engineering, design, and business. Its graduates learn to innovate consistently and to tackle challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective. It's all about creating products that are truly useful for the people who use them, and viable for the people that build them.While early success comes from creating high-quality, simple products that are delightful to use, I find that how we manage the growth of our companies over time is what defines our success. So, let's join forces and build something great.-T

Country

United States

City

Pittsburgh

Industry

Design

Skill

Project Management Software, Business Development, Product Launch, User Flows, Mockups, Team Management, Timekeeping, Loan Origination, Tenacious Work Ethic, Oral Communication, Analytical Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Communication Training, Financial Modeling, Public Relations, Environmental Studies, Real Estate Development Projects, Due Diligence, Communication, Business Planning

Experience

Head of Product

Reclamation Factory

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Product Design & Management

Reclamation Factory

2025-1 - 2025-6 · 6 mos

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

UX Lead

Atlas Engineer

2023-10 - 2024-4 · 7 mos

A community building the first personalized research engine. The hacker's web browser. https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt

User Experience Designer - Interaction Design

Atlas Engineer

2022-11 - 2023-10 · 1 yr

Building the hacker's power browser;

Project Manager

Conduction

2022-9 - 2023-1 · 5 mos

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Graduate Student | Product Development

Carnegie Mellon University

2021-8 - 2022-5 · 10 mos

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Earned a master's degree from The Integrated Innovation Institute at Carnegie Mellon University while developing product innovations for electric garbage trucks, on a team of six, through a project sponsored by Mack trucks and Volvo. Practiced: Human Centered Design, Strategic Development & Planning, New Product Development, Opportunity Gap Analysis, Service Design, Concept Ideation & Discovery, User Experience Research, Design for Manufacturing, & Feature Prioritization.

General Manager & Co-Founder

Lansing Concessions

2020-6 - 2021-9 · 1 yr 4 mos

Boise, Idaho, United States

Assembled a team to launch and operate a contactless food service business with strategic pricing, targeted offerings, and ecologically thoughtful packaging. I managed launch and operations for two seasons, then the successful sale of the business.

SEO & Sales Funnel Manager

Solar Product Development

2020-11 - 2021-8 · 10 mos

Boise, ID United States

Partnered with the great and mighty developer Rustyn Yazdanpour to build websites for SBE. Built online stores for CPG and legal services clients.

Mechanical Foreman

Intermountain Wind & Solar

2019-7 - 2020-1 · 7 mos

Boise, Idaho Area

Led a team to install approximately 7,600kW of solar arrays in the Intermountain, and Pacific Northwest, generating enough clean energy to power 100 homes for the next 20 years. Installed solar panels for approximately 90 residential and 10 commercial customers.

Photovoltaic Installer

Intermountain Wind & Solar

2019-4 - 2019-7 · 4 mos

Boise, Idaho Area

Senior Deckhand

Miss Alisson Fisheries

2018-6 - 2018-7 · 2 mos

Bristol Bay

➢Crewed for salmon fishing vessel Tumbling Dice. ➢Drift gill net fishing on the Kvichak and Naknek rivers. ➢Had too much fun in the Naknek Special Harvest zone.

Solar Site Assessor

Intermountain Wind & Solar

2017-8 - 2018-2 · 7 mos

Boise, Idaho Area

I worked on a sales team designing systems, generating leads, and closing residential customers.

Senior Deckhand & Sometimes Captain

Smith Lansing Fisheries

2008-5 - 2017-7 · 9 yrs 3 mos

Bristol Bay

➢Safely led teams to succeed in dynamic and dangerous work environments. ➢Sustainably harvested red salmon for Silver Bay Seafoods, a disruptive and modern fisherman owned cooperative. ➢Recruited and trained deckhands for complex operations. ➢Operated a 32 foot Bristol Bay gill-netter and coordinated a small crew. ➢Drift gill net fishing on the Naknek, Egegik and Kvichak rivers, Fishing vessels: Leslie G, and Goat Roper. ➢Trained deckhands. ➢Navigated tidal zones. ➢Removed Salmon from gill nets. ➢Programmed GPS information on Nobletech Navigation software & NMEA 2000 systems.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Product Design

2021-8 - 2022-6 · 11 mos

Studied innovation for products and services at Carnegie Mellon University where I strengthened my skill sets in Human Centered Design, UX research, designing smart systems with ML techniques, product management, business strategy, and stakeholder engagement. Coursework @ CMU Integrated Innovation Institute: Managing Products and Brands Smart Systems Design Engineering Thinking & Practice UX Research Integrated Product Development Business Models and Strategy Business Management Prototyping for IoT Visual Design IoT in Depth Workplace Design Design for Manufacturing & Sustainability. Coursework @ Tepper School of Business: New Product Management