About Us

Brian Elwell

Manager - Los Angeles Store

Brian is our resident audiophile in Los Angeles. Brian fell in love with music at a young age, and was heavily involved in his school’s music program for 7 years. He then further enhanced his audio expertise by spending 4 years in his school’s radio program using industry standard recording equipment. Over the years Brian has spent countless hours recording and mixing audio for the highest sound quality. Brian attended Long Beach State University receiving his bachelors degree in Political Science specializing in international relations. After college Brian spent time working in Ethiopia. In his time overseas he served as the deputy director of IT for a new college, further enhancing his technical skills. With his computer expertise, and extensive audio/video knowledge, Brian is the complete package.

Stephanie Barberi

Image Scanning Technician - Los Angeles Store

Stephanie Barberi graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a BFA in photography. She has been invested in both analog and digital photography formats for the last nine years. Before coming to DVD your memories, Stephanie worked for numerous artists, gaining hands-on experience in the fine art and photographic world. Heavily interested in fine art and portrait photography, she is constantly shooting and can always be found with a (vintage) film camera on her shoulder. “I believe in grain, golden hour, color corrections, composition, the square, random chance, the banal, light leaks, aging film, experimental processes, the romanticism of Polaroids, nonsense, and color harmony.” One of Stephanie’s favorite things to do is digitally restore age-worn images to their original state.

Paul Schneider

Video Technician - Los Angeles Store

Paul is our resident Video Transfer Technician in the Los Angeles store. He came to LA from the UK in June 2011 and hasn’t been able to drag himself away from the California sunshine, since! A keen musician, Paul has been honing his musical skills for the past 15 years, writing and producing music in a myriad of different styles.

Coming from a customer service background, Paul is dedicated to serving your video transfer requirements and ensuring you have the best possible experience here at DVD Your Memories. Feel free to give him a call about your video tapes!

Ryan Brown

Audio Technician - Los Angeles Store

Originally hailing from a small town in northern California, Ryan Brown came to Los Angeles in order to be educated at UCLA and be a part of the large multimedia culture that existed there. Each of these dreams have since come to realization, as he now has his BA degree in English and is a film transfer technician at DVD Your Memories.

DVD Your Memories is a perfect fit for Ryan, as he feels he can be truly passionate about his work. He believes preserving your memories is an incredibly rewarding experience.

Ryan has a love of all things media, especially music. When he is not doing his best to provide customer service and a great product at DVD Your Memories, he will be found writing, playing, and editing his own music.

Ethan Arnold

Film Transfer Technician - Los Angeles Store

Ethan Arnold hails from a faraway land in the East…Philadelphia! His passion for film and storytelling lead him to the Art Institute of Philadelphia where he studied visual art, varying from commercial art to video and film production, and received his degree in 2006. After graduating and working as a film transfer technician in the Philly suburbs for several years, he heard the call of Hollywood. Not lamenting the brutal Pennsylvanian winters, he packed up his SAAB and set out for the West Coast, eventually landing at DVD Your Memories. He enjoys riding his bike, gaming, movies and literature, and hopes that his experience and dedication will bring customers the highest-quality product.

Lonnie Lopez

Slideshow Editor - Los Angeles Store

Lonnie is our dynamite Slideshow Editor in Los Angeles. He has over 10 years of career experience including editing for broadcast news, commercial projects, documentaries, and special events. Having earned a degree in Electronic Engineering with a minor in Television Broadcasting, Lonnie contributes intricate technical know-how about both the guts of computers and the images he works with on the screen. He strives to perfect and push forward the art of editing for himself and those around him. He has always championed the use of Sony Vegas Video Pro as THE editing software of choice on a Windows computer. Feel free to ask him question about the editing software, he’ll talk for days about the matter!

Chuck Temple

President & CEO

Chuck Temple has been experimenting with technology ever since he was a child trying to play a 3 ½” floppy on a record player! He and his good friend, Benjamin, started DVD-Photo-Memories.com, which was later re-named DVD Your Memories, during a project transferring DVD’s for a local film festival. He realized the need for a local image scanning and video conversion service and discovered that his skill set was uniquely tailored to such a business.

Chuck’s experience with technology ranges from C++ programming to PBX telephone systems, and from web design and internet marketing to mathematical modeling. His wide-angle and macro thinking provides a tremendously successful perspective to running a media transfer company and achieving measurable business development goals. As a cum laude graduate of San Diego State University in Psychology with a minor in religious studies, Chuck is attuned to the human value of preserving family memories and to the importance of providing respectful, thorough, and genuine customer service.

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Bryan Clark

Operations Manager

Bryan was hired on as a technician in 2007, but soon proved capable of much more. Within four months, Bryan was the first manager of the San Diego location, and helped plan, set up, and grow each of the other stores. A wearer of many hats, Bryan now works on new product development, quality control, and new systems/policies from customer satisfaction to transfer and encoding methodologies. Bryan also has a hand in researching, purchasing, maintaining and updating all of the tech and equipment the company uses, and is the main man when it comes to support in both software and hardware for our employees and customers alike. He drinks a lot of coffee. Who can blame him?

Outside of the office, you’ll likely find Bryan listening to music, playing guitar, or exploring newly available digital media. Legend has it if you trick Bryan into revealing his one weakness, he has to grant you a wish.

Richard Uruchurtu

Director of Training

Richard Uruchurtu’s experience working in post-production for over 10 years makes him a veritable expert in all things multimedia! Richard is a film school graduate from The Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking. He has worked on several independent projects including short films, music videos, TV shows, and feature films. Richard began at DVD Your Memories as a video tape transfer technician and he quickly earned creative license to perform video editing. His ambition and expertise are a powerful resource when helping customers to create exciting and memorable slideshows, film projects, and video presentations.

In 2009, Richard was called upon to pioneer the second store in DVD Your Memories. The Orange County location quickly became a success helping hundreds of families preserve their family media. Also taking on the challenge of DVD Your Memories biggest project! The digitization of the City of Irvine’s meetings from the 70′s till present day. In 2011 Richard was promoted to Director of Training. Where he imparts his passion and expertise to the future employees of DVD Your Memories. In his free time Richard enjoys reading, gaming, and traveling.

Brandi Mitchell

Bookkeeper and Business Development

Brandi Mitchell was a customer of DVD Your Memories when we hired her as our in-house bookkeeper and business assistant. She used her family home videos on DVD as “in-van entertainment” during a long drive the previous summer. As a result of “DVD-ing” her memories, she discovered that her kids love watching videos of themselves as babies (better than Sponge Bob!) and we found an employee who shares our company’s vision! She is committed to documenting her life and family history through the lens of her digital SLR camera. Her family and friends love the updates to her online photo and video gallery and enjoy flipping the pages of her custom photo books at home. She is known around here for assigning office “theme days” (with required snapshots), recounting tales of her two young children’s latest discoveries (“Mom, I know leprechaun’s exist, but, come on, is there really a Solar System?!”), and final score announcements from her weekly women’s league soccer games. Brandi has fifteen years of professional experience in small business management, customer service, and bookkeeping, and is a graduate of French Language and International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Her interests, skills and enthusiasm for capturing the sights and sounds of the present and past make her a fantastic fit for the DVD Your Memories team!

Chris Papciak

Search Marketing

Chris Papciak is in charge of handling the company’s online marketing efforts as well as help out around the stores. He was born and raised with a family that was heavily involved with photography throughout San Diego County, which has fueled a passion for the industry. He has attended SDSU as well as vocational training for computer repair and networking certifications. In addition to previously managing a high-volume retail store, he has over 10 years experience troubleshooting and repairing computer hardware and peripherals.