Ryan Purcell: Management and Service

Ryan (ryan@reclaimmedia.com), 28, interacts with nice people like you and makes sure that our various departments and personalities are playing together.

Ryan's been with us since his return from National Guard service in Central Iraq in April 2005. He has had as many jobs as he is years old, really, and has excelled at all of them if you believe what he says (as we do). As the second member of the team, he has earned his ability to smoothly handle potential crises and seeming impending doom, pulling the team together on his confidence alone.

Ryan makes a point of answering his emails and phone messages by the end of the next workday, so put him to the test!

 Lena Baisden: Receiving and Finance

Lena (lena@reclaimmedia.com), 27, keeps the books and manages the receiving and requisite data-entry that happens then your cassettes and records get here. Finally, for her third job, Lena is our director of public relations.

Lena received her BA in English Literature at Arizona State University. After graduating, she relocated to Seattle to pursue both her musical ambitions with her art and music project The Deepsleep Narcotics Company and her English Literature graduate studies at the University of Washington focusing on stream-of-consciousness, Woolf and Joyce.

Before completing her application to the masters program, though, Ryan spotted her, got his net and snagged her to work here instead.

 Craig Meyer: Technology and Cables

Craig (craig@reclaimmedia.com), 32, is the mad scientist of the operation. You'll find him either plastered to his computer screen, eyeballs dry and bulging like ping-pong balls, or behind an equipment rack hip-deep in cables and zip-ties, muttering excitedly.

With experience in aerospace and web development, Craig has been with Reclaim Media (or rather, was Reclaim Media) from 2002 (when it was called "Cassettes2CDs") until being joined by his good-looking colleagues. Now, he's happily ignoring the telephone, focusing on developing new services and fine-tuning our existing ones.

 Kurt Best: Engineer and Office Manager

Kurt (kurt@reclaimmedia.com), 28, started shipping for us part-time as a way of avoiding "finding a real job". After it became apparent that he was hiding various relevant skills from us, we tricked him into all taking on all kinds of responsibilites.

Kurt earned a BS in Computer Science from Western Michigan University and an AA in Audio Production from The Art Institute of Seattle (in that order). He lived in Japan long ago, but still speaks the language fluently and goes back to visit every summer. He spends his free time riding and breaking vintage mopeds and working on music.

Kurt holds the most predictable schedule of any of us here, so if you call or visit during normal business hours you're most likely to talk to him.