Maya Cointreau

Gaylordsville, CT 06755

info@foxravendesigns.com

Summary: Maya Cointreau is an entrepreneurial business owner and freelance worker focusing on art, writing and holistic healing endeavors.
She is available for a variety of freelance work.

Entrepreneurial Experience:

Indigenous Peoples Learning Network, Inc. & Earth Lodge, Roxbury, CT (7/97 to Present)

• Vice President, Chief Herbalist, Webmaster and Art Director.

• Created and designed Healing Retreat & Treatment Center for people and animals.

• Created website, logos and advertising materials for animal herbal company. Designed Book Jackets and Layouts for all Earth Lodge Publications.

• Manage Daily Operations, track inventory and accounting.

• Create herbal formulas and flower essences for sale.

• Designed high-resolution company and product logos.

• Handled U.S. and International marketing research, edited design documents for CD-ROM game series, Created 15-minute animated QuickTime demonstration for presentation to potential investors.

FoxRaven Designs, Gaylordsville, CT (12/02 to Present)

·         Co-founder and Webmaster.

·         Design and create hi- and low-resolution logos, websites and promotional products for clients.

·         Manage inventory, create and design unique craft items for local and internet sale.

Momaya Press, London, United Kingdom (4/04 to Present)

·         Co-founder and Webmaster for small international press specializing in an annual short story competition judged by qualified industry agents, authors and editors.

·         Manage corporate website, track and manage contest entries.

·          Design and edit yearly review comprising contest winners.

Hygeia LLC, New Miford, CT (7/04 to 5/09, sold)

• Co-Owner of Natural Healing Center & New Age Store.

• Handle daily operations, including customer relations, inventory acquisition and tracking, accounting and staff management.

• Design and manage retail website, logos, outdoor sign and promotional materials.

Literary/Editorial Experience:

Natural Animal Healing: An Earth Lodge Guide to Pet Wellness (11/2009)

·         Author, Designer and Editor, Holistic Healing Book. Published by Earth Lodge, distributed through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and lulu.com.

Unlucky 13: Do you know what’s growing in your pasture?, Equine Wellness Magazine (3/2009)

·         Author, Magazine Article. Published by Equine Wellness Magazine.

Energy Healing for Animals & Their Owners: An Earth Lodge Guide to Pet Wellness (11/2009)

·         Editor, Holistic Healing Book by Sandra Cointreau. Published by Earth Lodge, distributed through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and lulu.com.

Heal your horse with a herbal pasture, Equine Wellness Magazine (1/2008)

·         Author, Magazine Article. Published by Equine Wellness Magazine.

Grounding & Clearing: Being Present in the New Age (2008)

·         Author, Designer and Editor, Metaphysical Book. Published by Earth Lodge, distributed through NewLeaf, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and lulu.com.

To the Temples: 14 Meditations for Healing and Guidance (2007)

·         Author, Designer and Editor, Holistic Healing Book. Published by Earth Lodge, distributed through NewLeaf, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and lulu.com.

Equine Herbs & Healing: An Earth Lodge Guide to Horse Wellness (2005)

·         Author, Designer and Editor, Holistic Healing Book. Published by Earth Lodge, through distributed through NewLeaf, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and lulu.com.

Momaya Press, London, United Kingdom (4/04 to Present)

·        Design book jacket and layout for 150pp Annual Review each year, edit content, handle print-on-demand details.

Advanstar, Santa Ana, CA (5/98 to 7/99)

• Managed editorial and design staff for three high-end computer graphics trade magazines, DCC Magazine, PC Graphics & Video, and Digital Studio.

• Tested new hardware and software products, wrote and edited product reviews and lead articles, contracted and managed freelance editors, and updated website news section on a regular basis.

Breaking Eight, 2000

·         Author, Fiction Novel. Designed and self-published through iuniverse.com.

S.P.A., Madrid, Spain (6/95 to 1/03)

·        Represented S.P.A. at American book trade shows and the Frankfurt Book Fair.

·        Art and Editorial Director, compiled and edited The Book of Cookbooks, 1995, second edition, the only bibliography at the time including more than 2,600 reviews of food titles from all genres and languages. Reviewed all incoming titles, developed refreshed layout, designed new book jacket.

Graphic & Web Design Experience:

City Rockeries, New York, NY (1/09 to Present)

·         Webmaster. Designed and maintain website and online donation apparatus for non-profit gardening organization.

Eden is Now, Gaylordsville, CT (6/07 to Present)

• Webmaster. Designed and maintain metaphysical website and online store.

RebaPhoto, Boston, MA (9/04 to Present)

• Designed and maintain website for professional photojournalist.

Hygeia LLC, New Miford, CT (7/04 to Present)

• Webmaster and Co-Owner of Natural Health Center & New Age Store. Created website, logos, outdoor sign and promotional materials.

Momaya Press, London, United Kingdom (4/04 to Present)

• Co-founder and Webmaster. Created website and promotional materials for small international press specializing in short stories. Design book jacket and layout for Annual Review each year, handle printing press details.

Gourmand, Madrid, Spain (5/03 to 12/07)

• Created and managed website and on-line bookstore for gourmet cookbook publisher.

The Chuckie Goodnight Foundation for the Environment, New York, NY (1/03 to 9/05)

• Created website, brochure and graphics for non-profit environmental foundation.

Lynda Evans, Artist, Knoxville, TN (12/02 to 3/04)

• Scanned and re-designed artist’s portfolio & website. Installed new computer system, gave user lessons.

Mind Over Markets, Santa Fe, NM (12/02 to Present)

• Created website and animated logos for socially responsible marketing and business development company.

FoxRaven Designs, Gaylordsville, CT (12/02 to Present)

• Co-founder and Webmaster. Designed website, logos, and promotional materials for design partnership.

The Grove, New Preston, CT (6/02 to 9/02)

• Created on-line store for proposed Holistic Healing Center.

Dreamgate, LLC, Woodbury, CT (5/02 to 8/02)

• Designed logos, business materials, pamphlets and new website for consulting firm.

Jane Doyle, Tapestry Artist, Roxbury, CT (4/02)

• Installed new computer network, updated old system.

Irene Clark, New York Artist, NY, NY (3/02 to Present)

• Designed, implemented and maintained business website for prominent New York painter. Executed complete site re-design Fall, 2009.

National Workshop on Solid Waste Management, New Delhi, India (12/01)

• Designed cover for USAID sponsored workshop CD-ROM, "Facilitating ULB Initiatives to Meet MOEF Objectives."

Joseph Pardee, Author, Oxford, CT (4/01 & 9/02)

• Designed book covers for novel, "Dame Fortune’s Favor".

Earth Lodge Herbals, Roxbury, CT (12/00 to Present)

• Vice President and Art Director. Created website, logos and advertising materials for animal herbal company. Designed Book Jackets and Layouts for three Earth Lodge Publications.

E. Barrie Kavasch’s Healing Arts, Bridgewater, CT (9/00 to Present)

• Designed and maintain professional author’s new business web site, including all site graphics, text, layout and
  organizational flow.

Dr. Allen Schoen, Sherman, CT (6/00 to 7/00)

• Consulted on new web site design and graphics for holistic veterinary care center and leading veterinary author.

Oldways Food Preservation & Exchange Trust, Boston, MA (2/00 to 9/00)

• Re-designed 90+ page web site, including all site graphics, text, layout and organizational flow, increasing monthly site traffic over 2000%. Designed four new high-resolution dietary pyramids.

Roxbury Horse Association, Roxbury, CT (2/00)

• Designed high-resolution logo and web site for local non-profit horse organization.

Stoney Brook Farm Kennel, Roxbury, CT (1/00 to Present)

• Created and maintain web site for local Standard Poodle breeder.

S.I.R., Los Angeles, CA (2/98 to 4/98)

• Created comprehensive marketing brochure detailing audio production equipment and services.

Kiedan Management, New York, CA (1/98)

• Designed high-resolution logos and letterheads for recording artist management company.

Indigenous Peoples Learning Network, Inc., Roxbury, CT (7/97 to 6/98)

• Handled West Coast and International marketing research, edited design documents for CD-ROM game series.

• Created 15-minute animated QuickTime demonstration for presentation to potential investors.

• Designed high-resolution company and product logos.

Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc., New York, NY (6/96 to 9/97)

• Primary in-house 2D artist for educational game company, creating post-production effects and composites.

• Created and compiled QuickTime movies using a variety of platforms, edited cell animations, designed original textures for 3D mapping, devised interface graphics, synchronized animations with accompanying sound.

S.P.A., Madrid, Spain (6/95 to 1/03)

• As Art and Editorial Director in 1995, compiled and edited The Book of Cookbooks, second edition, the only bibliography including more than 2,600 reviews of titles from all genres and languages. Reviewed all incoming titles, developed refreshed layout, designed new book jacket.

Holistic/Alternative Healing Education:

Herbalism: On-going studies 1995-Present. 

Shamanic Studies: Institute for American Indian Studies, 1998-2003

Usui Reiki Master: 2004

Teachers/Mentors: E. Barrie Kavasch (Ethnobotanist, Shaman, Usui Reiki Master), Sandra Cointreau (Shaman, Usui/Karuna Reiki Master), Nicole Davis (Medical Intuitive), Kathy Lalonde (Polarity Therapist), Rachel Andrews (Energetic Intuitive, Channel), Carlos Castaneda (Sorcerer/Shaman, Anthropologist), Lynn Andrews (Shaman), John Perkins (Shaman), Esther Hicks (Channel), Ted Andrews (Shaman, Energy Healer), Dennis Levesque (Life Coach), Alma Hutchens (Herbalist), Michael Harner (Shaman), Diane Stein (Reiki Master), Christopher Penzak (Reiki Master).

Formal Education:

Smith College, Northampton, MA (B.A., 1996)                

Major: Russian Literature

Concentration: Art Studio

Phillip's Academy, Andover, MA (Class of 1992)

Graduated with Honors, Literature and Art

 Rumsey Hall School, Washington, CT (Class of 1989)

Travel Experience:

France (semiannually), Spain (semiannually), Great Britain, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, The Philippines, Mauritius, Holland, Mexico, Peru, Nigeria, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa and more than half of the States in the USA.

Last updated: January 2009