Our Cisco Media Solutions Group team is growing. Recently, if you follow our Twitter feed - http://twitter.com/ciscoeos- you would have noticed a few links to open positions on our team that will help build us and sell CiscoEos. Job postings for roles like Senior Java Engineer, and NY based sales manager.  Such positions fall in a unique industry intersection of media, entertainment and technology. 

I’m always interested to find out how people wind up at this career intersection. Last year I talked to Damon Berger, who is now at Fox Filmed Entertainment as a Director of Digital Marketing, about how he broke into the business of content development for digital media platforms.This week, I’m in Los Angeles at the USC Marshall School of Business and the UCLA Anderson School of Business talking to MBA candidates about their aspirations to find positions that hit both media,entertainment and technology.

UCLA Anderson and USC Marshall have a close proximity to Hollywood. Therefore many students seek out an MBAs at these schools as further leverage to break into business development positions at large studios, music companies, and broadcast networks. Obviously, business development at entertainment companies these days revolves around creating new digital media businesses and revenue models, so now technology is also coming into play as part of the required business skill set.

I asked Christopher Noriega, who is a second year MBA student, and currently the President of the USC Marshall student organization, The Business of Entertainment Association -http://www.marshallbea.com/ - about what kinds of digital media jobs he’s seeing in the marketplace as he nears graduation.