Darren began his career as a trainee lineman in 1990 for a local utility company, Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. During his over 18 year career as a hot stick journeyman lineman, he became a foreman for National Grid Energy Services before starting his own company.

In 2009, Darren purchased his first utility bucket truck with a personal bank credit card at an auction sale in western New York, and D&D Power, LLC was launched. After building the company for over nine years his company had over 1,400 utility vehicles in the state of New York. In July of 2018, Darren’s company was acquired by Arrow Equity located in Boca Raton, and became an integral division of BHI Energy. Before the purchase of D&D Power, the company achieved financial growth of over 800 million dollars. Darren has remained with BHI Energy as a consultant running D&D Power, LLC.

Darren is fourth-generation Irish, his mother’s family is from Galway and his father is from Cork. Darren currently resides in Loudonville, New York with his wife Danielle, and children Katie and Jack.