Jen Simmons

Jen is a designer who builds stuff too.

She designed and created the new default theme for Drupal 7, named Bartik. Jen also co-hosts the popular podcast The Daily Edition with Dan Benjamin and is a Senior Developer at Palantir.net.

Jen began using Drupal in early 2007, when Drupal 5 was brand new and figuring out how to build a Drupal site was very painful. Originally, she started creating websites in 1996, and used many flavors of technology over the years. These days, she spends most of her day in the Drupal theming layer, and architecting & building sites.

Besides designing for the web, Jen has 20 years experience designing for live performance and for print. She’s created seven-channel digital projections for an opera about Nikola Tesla. She’s created short films that toured the globe in film festivals. And she’s taught media arts to high school kids in San Antonio. Jen also has a MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University, where she also taught as an Adjust Professor for three years.

Jen lives in New York City. She is jensimmons on drupal.org, in IRC, and on twitter.