Project Manager · Product Mindset · Toronto, Canada

I turn messy, undefined work into systems that scale.

Give me something messy, undefined, or never-been-built, and I come alive. It is the through-line of my work: coordinating enterprise transformation at Moderna, leading agency delivery for a federal Crown Corporation, building the automated backbone of a bilingual financial-literacy startup, and steering three products from concept to launch.

I am a project manager with a product mind: the discipline to deliver, and the instinct to keep people at the heart of what I build.

Open to PM, APM, and product operations roles where execution meets intention
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products, concept to launch
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real users on a live product
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resources coordinated across teams
Digital Transformation Stakeholder Management Agile Delivery Systems & Process Design End-to-End Product Ownership
00My through-line

One instinct, every time: find the messy problem, build the system that solves it, and keep the people it serves at the heart of it.

Whether solo or across complex, cross-functional teams, the instinct holds. At enterprise scale, the people were millions of patients worldwide, counting on Moderna's global SAP transformation to succeed. Operating within Program Odyssey's PMO, I onboarded the program team members joining the transformation. Recognizing that manual approval correspondence was consuming valuable project hours, I implemented an automation workflow across SharePoint and Microsoft Forms, reducing onboarding time by 90% and freeing my capacity for the work that moved the project forward. Beyond any brief, three problems moved me to act: a study tool that fell short of what I needed, a patient experience that deserved better, and a cold case that called for modern technology. I delivered each from first idea to launch.

01Selected work

Three products, concept to launch.

One live, with real users and two self-directed concept prototypes. Built for someone real each time: a candidate, a community, a family. All three built the same way: solo, directing AI as my engineering partner. I owned the product decisions, the tickets that scoped each build, and the QA that ensured every feature worked before it reached a user.

02How I think

A project manager with a product mind.

Cadesha Allen working in a notebook
At a glance
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP) · Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Focus
Project and program management, PMO establishment, with a product mindset
Experience
Enterprise transformation at 600+ resource scale, agency delivery, and startup operations
Education
Honours BA, Anthropology & Public Policy Analysis, University of Toronto
Toolkit
Agile · Waterfall · Hybrid delivery · Jira · Confluence · Figma · SharePoint · Power Automate · ServiceNow · React · TypeScript · Supabase · Figma Make · Claude AI
How I work
Clarity first: align stakeholders, then drive delivery.
Currently
PM at 123 Finance · Founder of SavvyPMP
Community
Long-time PMI Durham Highlands Chapter volunteer
Based in
Toronto, Canada · Open to hybrid and remote
03My journey

From stepping up to shipping product. Still building.

Cadesha Allen smiling at her desk
Get in touch

Let's build something that lasts.

Whether you are hiring, collaborating, or want to think through a hard problem together, I welcome the conversation.

I do my best work where delivery is undefined: early-stage teams, transformation programs, or anywhere that needs structure built from the ground up.