| 1968 | Climbed the Golden Gate Bridge; Sailed to Hawaii |
| 1970 | Drafted into the U.S. Army; Sent to nuclear weapons school |
| 1971 | Rode Harleys coast-to-coast for the U.S. Army |
| 1973 | Honorable Discharge – Started construction career |
| 1981 | Contract to install Chillers in the building where the FAA trains air-traffic controllers (Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center) |
| 1983 | FAA paid $300,000 to settle delay & other damages |
| 1986 | Only bidder 3 times to install new cooling towers on the Federal Building in San Fransisco – Project completed using a helicopter for 35% profit |
| 1987 | Selected by NASA to renovate Freonization Trans-sonic wind tunnel in Langley Air Force Base, VA for 36% profit |
| 1993 | Selected by USACOE for $10,000,000+ EPA SuperFund clean-up at Tinker Air Force Base, OK |
| 1998 | USACOE Contractor of the Year Award |
| 2003 | Replaced 500,000 gallon water tower – Langley Air Force Base |
| 2009 | Number of contracts completed: over 1,000 |
| 2010 | Keynote speaker at Construction Expos in Houstin and Dallas, Texas |
| 2011 to now | Doug created the “Mastering Federal Contracting Workshop |