Desmond has had vast professional experience in playwriting with published works such as Six Plays and student plays ( Epigram Books, 2013), Mistress and other creative take offs amongst other works.

His teaching experiences has included guest lecturing at Temasek Design School ( 2003-2016) & Lasalle College of the Arts (2008-2016).He also had several works produced by KL Performing Arts Centre from 2010- 2013.

He has held more than a dozen art exhibitions and won several national prizes for theatre (such as Play of the year, Best original Script , Autumn Tomyum) and short story and poetry writing.