Douglas RueDouglas Rue is a native Floridian. He was educated at both St. Augustine's College and De Paul University. With his need and desire to advance his career, a good part of his early adulthood was spent relocating from the East to West Coast and ultimatly finding his way back home to the Florida Gulf Coast. He has a background in Computer Engineering with degrees in Computer Science, Telecommunications and Business. Douglas has held many key technical positions in Enterprise Networking supporting multi-national organizations in their design and support of global networks from both a Telephony and Data Communications perspective. As an Adjunct Professor, he has also lectured Network Engineering courses at colleges both in Los Angeles and Atlanta. He taught his first college courses (Data Communications) in Southern California while still in his early twenties. Writing, as a hobby, seems to be just the right opportunity as he approaches his next chapters in life. As he puts it, writing seems to heal wounds that for long I denied their existence. His first two books of poetry, Sunflowers: A Collection of Poems and Between Sand and Sea are his way of exercising emotions he thought he had neatly locked away. As a result of his writings, through his use of metaphors, he has discovered the importance of expressing his acceptance of love and his continued growth in learning how to give love in return unconditionally. Read More Read Less