Principal, Chairman of the Board, Resort Development Team Leader of Schmueser Gordon Meyer, Inc.

Dean Gordon, professional engineer (P.E.) and co-founder of Schmueser Gordon Meyer, has been practicing civil and sanitary engineering since 1971. After receiving his degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Gordon began his career in engineering at the United States Public Health Service in Yuma, Arizona. There he practiced the design and installation of sanitation facilities in both residential and commercial properties on Native American reservations throughout the western United States.

After his work on various reservations, Gordon returned to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to lead the redesign of the sanitary engineering facilities. As Project Team Leader, Gordon taught a graduate course in the design of environmental facilities. He managed the graduate student team in producing environmentally friendly hazardous waste disposal sites and municipal landfills, industrial wastewater and refuse and municipal treatment facilities.

Upon completion of the project, Gordon returned to the west and settled in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. As a member of the Eldorado Engineering Company, he worked as a project and design engineer in charge of the planning, design and construction of municipal and industrial water and wastewater systems, water resources engineering and subdivision development.

Gordon joined the Schmueser & Associates engineering firm in 1981 as principal engineer of the engineering and surveying divisions. There he was responsible for the coordination of engineering activities for the entire civil engineering division.

Five years later, Dean Gordon purchased the engineering and surveying divisions of Schmueser & Associates with fellow engineer Louis Meyer. Together they formed Schmueser Gordon Meyer, Colorado?s leading engineering firm on the Western Slope.

Today, Gordon acts as the chairman of the board of directors, principal engineer and the Resort Development Team leader at SGM. As Resort Development Team leader, Gordon directs engineering services tailored to the resort development market, including site planning and development, golf course communities, residential development, commercial development and ski area base development.