Darren Smith is a professional in their field. They is proficient in French. Colleagues describe them as "Darren has been a first rate business continuity, crisis management and disaster recovery practitioner for ages. He has the skills, credentials and experience to undertake any job in the resilience spectrum anywhere in the World." and "In the field of continuity and resilience there are very few people who understand it from every perspective – Darren is one of these. Plenty understand how to implement business continuity strategies and solutions to enable the organization to continue to provide its prioritised activities in the face of disruption. Plenty understand how to engineer resilient and highly available IT systems to minimise the chance of business disruption due to IT issues. However, only a few understand how to harness these capabilities and combine them with other corporate activities such as enterprise risk management to add value to the whole of the business and not just a small part. It is therefore without hesitation that I recommend Darren for any Operational Resilience role."