He has more than twelve years experience in higher education and more than thirty years experience in the music industry. As faculty advisor for Berklee’s student-run record label, Heavy Rotation Records, he negotiated a recording contract with Epic/Sony Records—the first-ever college label and major label collaboration. The contract established the $100,000 Epic scholarship for Music Business/Management majors at Berklee. Prior to teaching music business, Dorenfeld was the personal manager of the multi-platinum band Boston. He has worked as tour coordinator, tour accountant, and lighting designer for platinum artist Sammy Hagar and performed tour accounting for multi-platinum artist Ozzy Osbourne.