Nelson Sanchez, USACE Mobile District Chief of Operations, said Dean has been nothing but exemplary in his service and leadership he has provided the Okatibbee Lake Project and the surrounding community the past 38 years. It’s much easier to your job when your family understands what your job requires and totally supports you.
As a park ranger and as a manager I have been called out for incidents and worked late many times to get the job done.
“I’ve worked weekends and a lot of holidays as a park ranger for 27 years. “My wife Tina and my daughter McKenna Grace have been tremendously supportive of my work and career,” Dean said. In the early 1990’s, Dean transitioned into a park ranger position and in 2012 he was promoted his current position as manager.ĭean said his love for Okatibbee and the love of his family has contributed greatly to his success. In 1985, the Corps lifted the hiring freeze and Dean was hired as a Park Technician at Okatibbee Lake. After graduating from Southern Miss in 1980, he went to work with the as an assistant park manager with the Mississippi State Park Commission because there was a hiring freeze with USACE. I found both.”Īfter he graduated from East Central Community College, Dean decided to major in Natural Resources Management at the University of Southern Mississippi. Some people never find a career or place to work that they are happy with. I have never really considered working anywhere else since. “I didn’t know then that I would someday make a career at Okatibbee Lake, but when I first came to work here, I knew I was home. “I first saw Okatibbee Lake on a camping trip with my family in the early 70’s shortly after it first opened,” Dean said. Army Corps of Engineers, Okatibbee Lake Project and has been taking care of Okatibbee Lake for the past 38 years.
Now, Dean is the Operations Resource Project Manager for the U.S. Living only 30 minutes from the lake, Dean remembers it as the place to go for summer outdoor recreation as it was, and still is, the largest lake from East Central Mississippi to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. – In 1972 when he was growing up in Newton County, Mississippi, Mark Dean visited Okatibbee Lake when it first opened.
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