{"id":8,"date":"2012-02-02T14:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T14:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancini.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:32:55","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leadership Team<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Alvin Puhach &#8211; Acting Director, Physical Plant<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>204-727-9659<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#84;&#x72;&#x65;&#109;&#x62;&#x61;t&#x68;&#x4e;&#64;&#x62;&#114;a&#x6e;&#100;o&#x6e;&#117;&#46;&#x63;&#97;\">&#x50;&#x75;&#x68;&#x61;&#x63;&#x68;&#x41;&#x40;&#98;&#114;&#97;&#110;&#100;&#111;&#110;u&#46;ca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Matt Morehouse \u2013 Acting Facilities Manager<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>204-727-9661<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;t&#111;&#58;&#x54;&#x72;e&#109;&#98;&#x61;&#x74;h&#78;&#x40;&#x62;&#x72;a&#110;&#x64;&#x6f;n&#117;&#46;&#x63;&#x61;\">M&#111;&#x72;&#x65;h&#111;&#x75;&#x73;e&#77;&#64;&#x62;&#x72;a&#110;&#x64;&#x6f;n&#117;&#x2e;&#x63;a<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Team Leads<\/h2>\n<h3>Trevor Kalinowich \u2013 Chief Engineer \u2013\u00a0IUOE-A<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>204-727-9620<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&#107;a&#x6c;i&#x6e;o&#x77;i&#x63;&#104;&#x74;&#64;&#x62;&#114;&#x61;&#110;d&#111;n&#x75;&#46;&#x63;a\">&#x6b;&#x61;&#x6c;&#x69;&#x6e;&#x6f;&#x77;&#x69;&#x63;&#x68;&#x74;&#x40;&#x62;&#x72;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x75;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x61;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Oksana Bihdan \u2013 Lead Hand \u2013 IUOE-D<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>204-727-9620<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#111;&#58;&#98;ihd&#x61;&#x6e;&#x6f;&#x40;&#x62;&#114;&#97;&#110;don&#x75;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x61;\">&#x62;&#x69;&#104;da&#x6e;&#x6f;&#64;&#98;r&#x61;&#x6e;&#100;&#111;n&#x75;&#x2e;&#x63;&#97;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oksana Bihdan is a Lead Hand of Physical plant at Brandon University, overseeing a team of Building Service Workers and Groundskeepers since June of 2015. Oksana earned a Bachelor Degree in Philology (Interpretation\/Translation) at the International University of Human development in Kiev, Ukraine in 2006. Oksana is passionate about providing excellent customer service and a clean and welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors on Campus. \u00a0She is driven by desire to inspire and develop others.<\/p>\n<h2>Office Administration<\/h2>\n<h3>\u00a0Julie Ramos Strahl \u2013 Administrative Assistant &#8211; MGEU<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>204-727-9736<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x72;&#x61;&#x6d;&#x6f;&#115;&#115;&#116;&#114;&#97;&#104;&#108;j&#64;bran&#x64;&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x75;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x61;\">&#x72;&#x61;&#x6d;&#x6f;&#x73;&#x73;&#x74;&#x72;&#x61;&#x68;&#x6c;&#x6a;&#x40;&#x62;&#x72;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x75;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x61;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Julie Ramos Strahl is the Administrative Assistant for the Physical Plant.\u00a0 Julie has worked in several areas of academia and has a wealth of knowledge in administrative operations.\u00a0 Julie&#8217;s extensive experience and project coordination is an asset to the department.<\/p>\n<h3>Stacey Harper \u2013 Office Assistant &#8211; MGEU<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>204-727-9620<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"ma&#105;&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x68;&#x61;&#x72;pe&#114;&#64;&#98;&#x72;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x6f;nu&#46;&#99;&#97;\">&#104;a&#x72;p&#x65;r&#x40;b&#x72;&#97;&#x6e;&#100;&#x6f;&#110;&#x75;&#46;c&#97;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership Team Alvin Puhach &#8211; Acting Director, Physical Plant 204-727-9659 PuhachA&#64;bran&#100;&#111;&#110;&#117;&#46;&#99;&#97; &nbsp; Matt Morehouse \u2013 Acting Facilities Manager \u00a0 204-727-9661 &#x4d;&#111;&#x72;&#101;h&#x6f;&#117;s&#x65;&#77;&#x40;&#x62;r&#x61;&#110;d&#x6f;&#110;&#x75;&#x2e;c&#x61; &nbsp; Team Leads Trevor Kalinowich \u2013 Chief Engineer \u2013\u00a0IUOE-A 204-727-9620 k&#97;&#108;&#x69;&#x6e;&#x6f;w&#105;&#99;&#x68;&#x74;&#x40;br&#97;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x6f;nu&#46;&#99;&#x61; Oksana Bihdan \u2013 Lead Hand \u2013 IUOE-D 204-727-9620 bih&#100;&#97;&#110;&#111;&#x40;&#x62;&#x72;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x6f;nu&#46;&#99;&#97; Oksana Bihdan is a Lead Hand of Physical plant at Brandon University, overseeing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}