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Darrin Smith

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Lead Specialist, Enterprise Architect at Pearson
📍 Cumberland, Maryland, United States

Darrin Smith is a Principal Enterprise Architect at a Fortune 500 hospitality company, described as being very thorough in his work. He specializes in enterprise AI governance and reference architecture, focusing on deterministic and traceable AI solutions. He holds a Master of Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Darrin is the founder of Optimal Chart, where he created the "ACE" (Architect-Constructor-Evaluator) framework to build a suite of healthcare software products.

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Experience
34 Years
Current Role
Lead Specialist, Enterprise Architect
Job Level
Senior
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States
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AI Governance
His primary professional focus is scaling AI with determinism, traceability, and executive-level governance, as detailed in his architectural articles.
Enterprise AI Architecture
He designs and defines canonical standards for AI adoption in large-scale, regulated environments, authoring concepts like the "Cognitive Singularity Architecture".
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Career

Work history

6-2026
Lead Specialist, Enterprise Architect
Pearson
12-2025
Founder & Principal Architect
Optimal Chart, LLC
3-2022 - 6-2026
Principal Enterprise Architect | AI Strategy & Governance
Choice Hotels International
12-2019 - 4-2022
Senior Engineering Architect
Hagerty
11-2016 - 12-2019
Lead Mobile Architect and Manager for Android
Hilton Worldwide
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Education
1-2026 - 3-2027
Master of Science - MS (iMSM)
Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1984 - 1989
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
West Virginia University
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