Donald Lee Taylor graduated from Drexel University in 1977 having earned his B.S. degree in Business and Accounting. He also attended Delaware Law night school for 2 years and worked in various accounting and paralegal positions before embarking on his federal law enforcement career in 1987 as a Special Agent for the United States Treasury Department - Internal Revenue Criminal Investigation Division in Atlantic City New Jersey.

In 1991, Donald graduated from the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia as a Special Agent assigned to the Newark, New Jersey FBI Division field office. There he worked on several squads and multiple investigations such as kidnapping, wire and bank fraud, drugs, organized crime, money laundering, espionage, political corruption and both World Trade Center bombings. He is credited for initiating and successfully investigating one of the Bureau's first Foreign Corrupt Practice Act cases - a case wherein he tracked 18 million dollars from 30 different bank accounts through 11 different countries, which sent him from the U.S. to Turkmenistan, Southern Russia, as an advisor to that government. During that same time, Donald served on the Newark FBI SWAT Team for 8 years, 6 of which he was a Sniper/Observer.

As a former IRS Criminal Investigator, he was requested and detailed for eighteen months in Washington, D.C. to the congressionally mandated Webster Commission which reviewed and restructured the entire IRS Criminal Investigation Division. He received the coveted IRS Director’s Award for his efforts and is named in that published congressional report.

In 2002, Donald was promoted to FBI Headquarters in Washington as a legacy Supervisory Special Agent assigned to the Counter terrorism Division, National Joint Terrorism Task Force where he coordinated over 56 government agencies on September 9/11 matters and other high-level investigations. In 2005, he served in the Director's Office until he retired in December 2007.

Upon his retirement from the Bureau, Donald founded his own security consulting company, providing his services to the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor, Maryland as his first client. In addition, Donald returned to FBI Headquarters as a consultant/contractor assigned to the Directorate of Intelligence for Counter terrorism as well as providing budgetary oversight to the Directorate of Weapons of Mass Destruction at FBIHQ.

In addition to his lengthy career in the federal government, he still serves as a member of Light of Elmwood Lodge #45 as a 32^nd Degree Mason for over 48 years. Finally, he currently serves at The New Macedonia Baptist Church, Washington, D.C. as a Security Advisor.