<e.law>'s Senior DBA / IT Strategic Lead, Desmond Lemmon-Warde, has a wealth of experience managing, designing and developing robust, internationally distributed information systems as well as the business processes that support and sustain them. He has worked in South Africa and Australia and has designed and managed information systems located across the USA, Canada, SA, Australia and the UK.

He has worked in many different business environments including online gaming, medical information software, web solutions and financial software in roles such as database development, administration and architecture, solutions consulting, IT security, and staff management.

Desmond is passionate about the technologies and paradigms which drive and sustain modern business infrastructures and holds various qualifications in database administration; network management; multimedia design and production; and freelance journalism.