Willi Dornbierer has an education in commerce and went to work with Swiss Silk Bolting Cloth Mfg. Co. Ltd., Thal, Switzerland in 1960 when he first started screen printing. He became Manager of the SST Screen Printing Training Center. As such, he is involved in R & D of stencil fabrics and other applications for screenprinting. Willi has trained hundreds of screen printers worldwide.

Dornbierer is a 1993 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).