Pushing creative education and challenging what is possible is what drives Jeremy Vest.  In his 10-year career, Vest has gone from teacher, marketer, art director, author, instructional designer, and college program director to President and founder of xTrain.com.  In whatever endeavor he is currently taking on, Vest is always pushing forward with new visions, dreams, and goals.

In the educational realm, Vest taught over 10 creative subjects in graphic design and Web design at the college level for over 4 years. Vest also created and ran a Visual Communications program that was used by several college campuses.   In another capacity, Mr. Vest was the Art Director for 7 career college campuses and was in charge of all print, online, and video marketing. He successfully rebranded the entire college system, helping lead to the school’s acquisition.

Not one to just attempt success in one area, Mr. Vest has also created and led two internal corporate marketing departments from the ground up.  One of the departments was a very successful stock trading Software Company.  There, he was in charge of all visual and online branding and marketing and led a diverse team of people.

These experiences led to xTrain.  xTrain was a dream 4-years in the making that Mr. Vest pioneered. xTrain has revolutionized online creative video training and was the first company on the Web to incorporate Emmy award winning television production with software based training, winning 3 Emmys in 2008.   xTrain was also the first creative training Web site to use a social learning community. With faculty like Senior Creative Director of Adobe Systems Russell Brown, Ben Willmore and many more, xTrain quickly established itself as a top online creative education leader. As founder, Vest served as the Lead Instructional Designer for both xTrain and its projects with software and publishing companies.

Occasionally Mr. Vest puts his skills and vast experience to work by speaking at various seminars; his last appearance was at the DSVC Student show in April 2009. Mr. Vest authored “Exploring Web Design,” published by Delmar in 2005.

Currently Mr. Vest is helping large companies create solid eTraining, online marketing, and out of the box marketing strategies through Pushing Art Consulting.