David Doran

David Doran co-founded Texas Systems Group in 2002. He has over 26 years of proven leadership experience in sales, IT infrastructure design and integration, technical operations management, and software development.

Doran started his career as a Lieutenant in the US Air Force as a software engineer developing classified 3-Dimentional visualization systems. He also served in the first Gulf War (Desert Storm), overseeing communication and computer support to the RC-135 (Rivet Joint) aircraft. Captain Doran was then sent to the Headquarters European Command in Stuttgart, Germany where he directed around the clock support for the World Wide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) and the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) where he achieved the highest system availability out of 16 worldwide locations including the Pentagon.

After four years in Germany, Captain Doran was reassigned to the 412th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, CA where he performed advanced flight testing of airborne communication and computer systems on a C-135 aircraft.

Doran began his civilian career in 1997 as a Technical Consultant with Sprint Paranet during which time he also served in the Air Force Reserves at the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), Information Warfare Center. After a year at Sprint Paranet, he then took over management of the Information Technology department for Deja.com (formerly DejaNews). In 1999, Doran was recruited at the initial funding stage by QuickArrow Inc., as the Director of Information Technology. At QuickArrow, he hired staff to build and provide 24/7 support to the company’s data center application hosting infrastructure. In 2002, he co-founded Texas Systems Group, Inc. and took on the position of CEO to lead a customer focused group of system and network administrators that provide fixed price Managed Information Technology services and support to businesses throughout Texas.

Doran has a B.S in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and an M.S. in Management of Information Systems from Bowie State (University of Maryland Systems), and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.