Andy Downard

Experience

ButterFLi Technologies

Co Founder 2016 - Present (over 8 years)

On-Demand Assisted Transportation for the Elderly and People with Disabilities

- Conceived of social-enterprise concept and built on-demand marketplace for wheelchair... more

Exit

StyleWhere

Co Founder 2014 - 2017 (about 3 years)

In-Store Shopping Cart Abandonment. Acquired by Avery Dennison in 2016.
- Built software that analyzed 1.2B data points per day across multiple physical retail stores.
-... more

Senitron

Product Manager 2014 (6 months)

Real-time inventory management using passive sensors embedded in price tags.

Responsible for product management for proof of concept projects in retail stores and... more

Aggregation Systems

Product Manager 2013 - 2014 (3 months)

Industrial wastewater reclamation and heat transfer management using remote sensor networks.

Exponent

Engineering Consultant/Product Engineering 2012 - 2013 (over 1 year)

Prototyping of counter-IED products for the Army in Afghanistan, and product failure analysis in the United States.

Microfluidic Applications

Co Founder 2003 - 2005 (about 2 years)

Co-invented a protein separation device with 10X the throughput of conventional methods.
Developed a partnership that resulted in a $70K small business grant.

Shopify

Senior Product Manager 2022 - 2023 (6 months)

Happy Returns

Senior Product Manager 2018 - 2022 (over 4 years)

Acquired by PayPal in June 2021.

- Built and matured our reverse logistics software through a 200x increase in scale, from 7K items/month to 2M items/month.
- Delivered... more

University of Southern California

Adjunct Assistant Professor 2012 - 2013 (about 1 year)

Chemical Engineering 487 - Sensors for Nanotechnology

California Institute of Technology

Graduate Student 2005 - 2012 (almost 7 years)

Sensors for nanoparticles and cloud nuclei.

Employee

Exponent, Senitron, California Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, Happy Returns, Shopify, Microfluidic Applications, Aggregation Systems, StyleWhere, ButterFLi Technologies

Education

About

Achievements

I build software products that power efficient logistics:

- In-store returns for online retailers (Happy Returns - acquired by PayPal).
- On-demand specialized transportation (Butterfli).
- Google analytics for physical stores (StyleWhere - acquired by Smartrac NV).

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Product Management Prototyping Product Development

Locations

Denver

Andy Downard

Senior PM, Happy Returns (acq. by PayPal). Co-Founder, Butterfli • Co-Founder, StyleWhere (acq. by Smartrac) • Studied at @Caltech (Ph.D.) @University of Notre Dame (MBA, BS)

I build software products that power efficient logistics: - In-store returns for online retailers (Happy Returns - acquired by PayPal). - On-demand specialized transportation (Butterfli). - Google analytics for physical stores (StyleWhere - acquired by Smartrac NV).

I build software products that power efficient logistics:

- In-store returns for online retailers (Happy Returns - acquired by PayPal).
- On-demand specialized transportation (Butterfli).
- Google analytics for physical stores (StyleWhere - acquired by Smartrac NV).