Experience

Consulting at Alonsera, a venture of my own, business continuity inside county cybersecurity, and a Deloitte mentorship.

Connor Ruffalo speaking during a lecture conference
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Nov 2025 – Present

Alonsera

Management Consultant · new-wave consultancy supporting the middle market

  • Built an AI enrichment tool (Claude API, App Script) that cleaned and segmented a 12,965-record CRM, processing 14,900+ contacts
  • Designed the 10-sector, 30-subsector industry taxonomy now standard in HubSpot; executed a 12,965-row migration with zero errors
  • Built HubSpot dashboards (Deals by Stage, Industry, Source) with Claude, giving leadership visibility into an $8M+ pipeline
  • Authored company-wide data-ops SOPs, now adopted; automated workflows including inbound email and dashboard refresh
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Jun 2024 – Mar 2026

CAPCASE

Founder · e-ink iPhone cases on TikTok Shop

  • Hit a 10% conversion rate and $5K sales in the first month; sold 500+ units by end of year
  • Boosted profit margins from 22% to 55% via supplier management, 3PL, and white-label branding
  • Held physical inventory (no dropshipping) and maximized GMV through direct supplier relations, scaling without price hikes
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Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

Orange County IT

Business Continuity Intern · cybersecurity team

  • Conducted enterprise-wide risk assessments on 32 threat scenarios, with business impact analyses for 140+ critical functions
  • Reduced average recovery-time objectives (RTOs) by 6%, working across cybersecurity, IT operations, and executives
  • Standardized 8 business continuity plans, cutting their length by 64% and raising end-user drill adoption by 18%
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Feb 2024 – May 2024

Deloitte Consulting

Mentee · consulting diversity mentorship

  • Shadowed experienced customer-AI consultants and delivered a mock SME consulting-style pitch
  • Learned Deloitte’s Business Chemistry and solution evaluation methods

Student leadership

Where the operator instinct got trained.

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May 2024 – Dec 2025

UCI Rocket Project

Brand Marketing Manager · operations subteam, Liquids

  • Vertically integrated the content pipeline to boost average views from 1K to 10K+ and watch time from under 5 seconds to 20 seconds, generating 3+ sponsorship leads netting $4K+
  • Collaborated with 38 engineers chasing the collegiate altitude record for experimental methalox fuel
  • Developed 5 marketing procedures that turn rocket science into clear content for non-technical stakeholders
  • Created the team’s video program: trailers, cold flow and VTF test recaps, recruitment and ZotFunder fundraising films, and senior interviews, plus the merch website and merchandise designs
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Oct 2023 – Dec 2025

Manifest at UCI

Project Manager · entrepreneurship club

  • Facilitated speaker events reaching 500+ students, featuring Blizzard founder Michael Morhaime and Alteryx founder Dean Stoecker
  • Generated a 1,400% increase in online followers through experimental marketing strategies
  • United 36 handpicked entrepreneurial students, bridging STEM and business across UCI, UCLA, and USC
Manifest members with Alteryx founder Dean Stoecker at his fireside chat
Connor Ruffalo holding a Manifest banner
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2025 – 2026

Insta360

Campus Creator · Insta360 X5 360° camera

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Sep 2023 – Dec 2025

University of California, Irvine · BA Business Economics, Minor in Management

Completed in two years · GPA 3.7

Selected honors: UC SIEML MBA Fellowship (’25) · Dean’s Honor List (’23–’25) · UCI-OC Alliance Edwards Lifesciences Scholarship (’24) · ALPFA Convention Scholarship (’24, ’25) · Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar (’23, ’24) · Eagle Scout (’22)