When an opportunity came up to move back to Dallas, he made the trip back to Texas and worked for a Dallas ad agency for a couple of years where he won several awards for radio and television commercials that he penned and produced. A job offer in Boston to manage a company that produced multi-media stage shows for major meetings and conventions took him back to New England. But after a couple of winters of the Yankee cold and snow, Doug decided there had to be a warmer place to live. He finally packed up the old Olds Cutlass and took a road trip to the West coast where he now calls Los Angeles his home.

Doug spent his first twenty years in LA raising a family and working at Honeywell Aerospace (previously AlliedSignal) where he became a senior contracts manager, negotiating complex aircraft component contracts with major aerospace companies in Korea, China, Holland and England. An opportunity came up in 2000 to take a similar role with the satellite manufacturing division of Boeing, where Doug is still employed, and where he writes and negotiates contracts with international customers. Honeywell and Boeing introduced Doug to new people, different cultures, big ideas and global concepts that helped shape the person he is today.

Doug is married and has three children, a daughter who is an elementary school teacher, a son who is studying at Chapman College in Orange, California, and a son who is serving with the Marines in Afghanistan.