Paula Hay

Current

Founder and principal at Rabbit Mountain, LLC

Past

Graphics Coordinator at Trader Publishing, Inc.
Digital prepress technician at Precision Digital Imaging

Education

Pennsylvania State University

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Connections

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Industry

Graphic Design

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Paula Hay’s Summary

I am a native of Centre County, Pennsylvania, and aside from my graphic design work, I am currently finishing up an undergraduate degree in Journalism and a post-baccalaureate certificate in Technical Communications at Penn State University. My undergraduate work focused on science and technology journalism, and I garnered some recognition by placing among the top contestants in the 2004 Hearst Student Journalism national competition.

I am also formerly the publisher of "Adaptation," a webzine that focused on relocalization and sustainability issues such as community currencies, appropriate technologies, and urban permaculture. In April, 2006, I was a participant at the Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma conference in New York City.

Before embarking on my undergraduate degree, I spent ten years working as a graphic artist in both print and web publishing, and as a prepress “techie” working with then-cutting-edge digital print technologies. I have been using the internet since 1991, learned website creation in 1998, and have been freelancing as a web designer since 2000.

Paula Hay’s Specialties:

Web design and content management; site mission development and/or clarification; ongoing site maintenance; bulk email template design & list integration with new or existing websites; print design and production; instructions composition.

Paula Hay’s Experience

Founder and principal

Rabbit Mountain, LLC

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)

March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

I do everything a solo business owner needs to do. For my clients, I design websites and printed materials; clean up their corporate identities; implement SEO and SEM strategies; and usability analysis as it applies to marketing creative.
Graphics Coordinator

Trader Publishing, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

May 1997 — November 2000 (3 years 7 months)

An assistant managerial position in the production department. My job was to stay on top of the Mac network, monitor technology developments & make purchase recommendations to the department head, train the graphic artists in technology upgrades or workflow changes, assist with scheduling, and personally build one of the nine magazines the department produced each week.
Digital prepress technician

Precision Digital Imaging

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Printing industry)

January 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 11 months)

Preparation of customer-supplied graphics files for high-resolution film output; QA; color proofing; color correction; signature imposition; trapping.

Paula Hay’s Education

Pennsylvania State University

B.A., Journalism, Technical Communications, 2002 — 2008

I am finishing my degree part-time as I transition back into the workforce.

Activities and Societies:

"Returning adult student" in Penn State's lingo, otherwise known as an "adult learner."

Additional Information

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Paula Hay’s Interests:

Open-source; economic relocalization; sustainable technologies; "green" business development; usability; drawing; writing; typography; letterpress printing.