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transitions
Brailsford & Dunlavey
Washington, D.C.

Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois

Paul Komer is a new vice president who will provide senior
management for the firm’s West Coast projects. He brings
30 years of planning, development, design, and construction
experience with him.

Randall P. Bogard is the new assistant director of housing
for residential life. Bogard has previously worked at Western
Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Indiana University
in Bloomington, and Iowa State University in Ames.

Rich Neumann is also a new vice president, the company’s
first vice president for major accounts. He brings 25 years of
sports administration and facility management experience
with him. His primary focus will be business development
activities for major implementation assignments.

Monique Harmon, Lisa Walker, and Elizabeth Wenger are
new area directors for residential life.

retirement announCements

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Jeff Urdahl retired from his director of housing
operations position at UC Berkeley in late June
of 2013, after serving in this role for five years.
Urdahl’s career in student housing spans 40
years, beginning with his position as an
assistant food service director in San Diego
working for Allen & O’Hara; he then served as
the property general manager for two years
before taking a job at San Diego State
University in California, working for Mike
Hoctor (ACUHO-I past president). Fifteen
years later he took a position at University of
Southern California in Los Angeles as director
of housing. After a short retirement, he took
the position at UC Berkeley.
Urdahl has been a member of ACUHO-I
and WACUHO where he served as treasurer
and president and was awarded the WACUHO
Charles L. Miller Award for service and
leadership.

University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Frank Montana retired from his position in
residential life in June of 2013. He worked at
UCLA for 27 years in several positions, both in
housing and residential life. Montana began his
student housing career in 1976 as a residence
counselor at California Lutheran University
(formerly California Lutheran College) in

Thousand Oaks. He then moved on to a hall
director position at California State University,
Chico, and after two years became the director
of residential living at Southern Utah State
University in Cedar City. Frank returned to
California to become director of summer
conferences and off-campus housing at
Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park,
California, and then finally to UCLA as
assistant director for housing services and most
recently as manager for special projects and
services in the office of residential life.

Frank Montana

Montana has been a member of several
professional associations including the Western
Association of College and University Housing
Officers (WACUHO), Association of
Intermountain Housing Officers (AIMHO),
and Association of College and University
Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I). He
has been active in ACUHO-I (where he recently
served on the Foundation Cabinet), WACUHO,
and AIMHO his entire career.
Montana has a bachelor’s degree in history
from the University of Dayton in Ohio and a
master’s of science degree in counseling from
California State University, Los Angeles.
Additionally, he served as an officer in the
United States Marine Corps prior to beginning
his post-graduate education.

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