Steve Persch's life changed when he was presenting on a panel discussion for the Arts and Business Council of Chicago in 2007. Steve highlighted how well he wrangled WordPress for a theatre company's blog and online magazine. Another panelist acknowledge that WordPress was nice, but bigger sites would need the power of Drupal's fields and Views. Intrigued, Steve researched Drupal 5 and got hooked, pun intended. After years of working as an engineer and tech lead in the agency space, Steve joined Pantheon to focus more on relieving the points of friction shared by most professional web teams.