Summary
Andrew Makar is an IT director and program manager with 20+ years of experience leading digital marketing, CRM, and enterprise IT transformations across automotive, financial, and software sectors. Currently at Salesforce, he specializes in Salesforce Clouds, Adobe Experience Manager, Agile transformation, and project portfolio governance, consistently turning program strategy into measurable delivery. He pairs practitioner credentials (PMP, CSM, DMIT) with hands-on implementation of SCRUM, Atlassian tooling, and data-driven operational analytics. As an adjunct professor and author, he also translates industry practice into classroom instruction for MBA and IT students, which keeps his methods both current and teachable. Known for building centers of excellence—from QA to Agile delivery—he quietly blends academic rigor with pragmatic delivery to scale complex, multi-vendor programs.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
DMIT, Doctorate of Management in Information Technology, DMIT, Doctorate of Management in Information Technology at Lawrence Technological University
De La Salle Collegiate
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Central Michigan University
MBA, Business, MBA, Business at University of Michigan-Dearborn