Darren was educated at Greenhill School Tenby and University of Aston, where he achieved a First Class Honours degree in Civil Engineering.  He qualified as a Chartered Civil Engineer (MICE) in 1993 and worked for Atkins, the British multinational engineering services company, for 8 years, including spending a year working overseas in Sri Lanka. He became a Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers (MIStructE) in 1997, and achieved an MBA in 2003.

Darren has worked for Pembrokeshire County Council since 1998 in a number of technical roles.  He was appointed as Head of Service in 2005, and as Head of Infrastructure in 2018. In this role he manages all aspects highways & streetcare; transport & active travel; coastal & flood management; and professional construction services. He was appointed as a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2020. Darren is a trained Multi Agency Gold Incident Commander, and in this capacity helped lead the Council’s response to the COVID pandemic in 2020 / 21, and Chaired the regional Recovery Coordination Group. Darren also sits as a member of the Wales Flood and Coastal Erosion Committee, and represents Wales’s local authorities at the UK Roads Liaison Group.