Pixel It Productions turns web lessons into five new web jobs in TechTown

Three years ago Lori Autrey started Pixel It Productions with the idea that people wanted Internet-based careers and companies wanted to hire those people.

Pixel It Productions specializes in training people for Internet-based jobs, such as building web sites and application for them. Today the TechTown start-up employs five people of its own and gives out work to a handful of contractors.

“We’re trying to focus on all the creative talent we have in Detroit,” says Lori Autrey, executive director of Pixel It Productions. “The industry is here. The jobs are here. But the people need to be trained for them.”

She sees a lot of opportunity helping transition part of Detroit’s 20th century workforce into the 21st century. It’s a field of opportunity that Autrey thinks will allow her business to double or even triple in size in the next year or two.

She has even developed the “Pink Slip Productions” program that offers the lessons for half off for people who have been laid-off, downsized, rightsized or basically told their services are no longer needed.

“We want to work with Wayne State to establish a degree program,” Autrey says.

Source: Lori Autrey, executive director of Pixel It Productions
Writer: Jon Zemke