Early Career
He joined a company that was to become Sprint Communications in 1981, as employee number 55, and climbed to become President of Sprint Business - with 10,000 employees and revenues of $4.5Bn.
In 1994 and the age of 39, Dorman became youngest President and CEO of a BabyBell at Pacific Bell, a division of Pacific Telesis. The company was taken over by SBC Communications in 1997, and after being reassigned as Executive Vice President, Dorman resigned to join PointCast - an internet service provider. After PointCast Dorman left to become Chief Executive Officer of Concert Communications Services, the joint venture between BT and AT&T.
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