Student Profile: Mike Battipede

            Fresno State Senior Mike Battipede will be moving to Boston, Massachusetts on May 31 to begin his sales position at EMC Corporation.

EMC is the worldwide leader in products, services, and solutions for information storage and its management. Some of EMC’s partners include Dell, Cisco Systems and Intel.

Battipede will be entering into the corporations’ College Hire Program. This is a two year program where he will learn the basics of sales, become familiar with the products and set up appointments for suture EMC partners.

Battipede never thought he would be so lucky as to start his career right after college. Battipede is graduating with his MCJ degree with an emphasis in advertising. With a combination of his degree and internship experience in the marketing department re-writing the website for Adeara, Inc, he feels prepared for a career.

He attributes his new-found success to two MCJ classes in particular. He gained sales experience thorough MCJ 143, Newspaper Advertising Staff, taught by Dr. Asahina. He also feels that without MCJ 102W, Community Journalism with Dr. Rice, he would not be as prepared for the real world.

“I had to step outside my comfort zone and call people I didn’t know and either sell them advertising or interview them,” Battipede said. “I truly feel the MCJ program has prepared me for my professional career.”

After two years of training in Boston, Battipede plans on relocating back to his home town of San Jose, California.