About Us

Blake Fertig

Manager - Orange County Store

Blake has been writing, editing and shooting short films and events for over ten years. He graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a degree in Film and Visual Culture. Since then, he has worked steadily as an independent filmmaker and a freelance videographer. Blake has worked as both the Film Transfer Technician and the Editor here at DVD Your Memories and in 2011 he became the Orange County Store Manager. Blake enjoys working at DVD Your Memories because of the dynamic atmosphere of working with technology and using his knowledge to enhance family memories.

Rustyn Sa

Image Scanning Technician - Orange County Store

Rustyn’s background in professional photography, both as a student and in her work as a portrait photographer, reflects her commitment to capturing, preserving and restoring memories. She started her career at a photo print shop, developing negatives and slides into prints. As an image scanning and restoration specialist at the Irvine location of DVD Your Memories, Rustyn provides a keen technical eye partnered with a natural talent for composition, scale, color balance, contrast and lighting.

Andrew Ng

Film Transfer Technician - Orange County Store

Andrew Ng graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Studio Art and Film & Media studies. Outside of DVD Your Memories, Andrew is a Director of Photography for narrative and commercial film working with various productions throughout Orange County and Hollywood. He is also an active member of the UC Irvine film community working with fellow colleagues on an annual film festival as well as a production club. With his appreciation for film and visual communications Andrew joined DVD Your Memories’ Irvine location as a Film Transfer Technician. He is proud to be restoring and digitizing your memories.

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.