William Lam

William Lam

San Francisco Bay Area
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Experience

Education

Volunteer Experience

  • Team4Tech Graphic

    Volunteer

    Team4Tech

    - Present 11 years 3 months

    Science and Technology

    As part of the Good Gigs Trek program hosted by VMware and partnering with Team4Tech, we worked with the JWOC (Journeys Within The Community) foundation to help strengthen English-language learning, digital literacy and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics) programs for undeserved youth and adults in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

    More details can be found in these two blog…

    As part of the Good Gigs Trek program hosted by VMware and partnering with Team4Tech, we worked with the JWOC (Journeys Within The Community) foundation to help strengthen English-language learning, digital literacy and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics) programs for undeserved youth and adults in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

    More details can be found in these two blog articles:
    https://www.williamlam.com/2014/11/good-gigs-trek-cambodia-week-1.html
    https://www.williamlam.com/2014/11/good-gigs-trek-cambodia-week-2.html

Patents

  • Remote Provisioning of Hosts in Public Clouds

    Issued US 10,114,659

    Examples provide for automatically provisioning hosts in a cloud environment. A cloud daemon generates a cloud host-state configuration, for a given cloud instance of a host, stored on a cloud metadata service prior to first boot of the given cloud instance of the host. A first boot of a plurality of cloud instances of hosts is performed using a stateless, master boot image lacking host-specific configuration data. On completion of the first boot of a given cloud instance of a host, the cloud…

    Examples provide for automatically provisioning hosts in a cloud environment. A cloud daemon generates a cloud host-state configuration, for a given cloud instance of a host, stored on a cloud metadata service prior to first boot of the given cloud instance of the host. A first boot of a plurality of cloud instances of hosts is performed using a stateless, master boot image lacking host-specific configuration data. On completion of the first boot of a given cloud instance of a host, the cloud host-state configuration is installed on the master boot image to generate a self-configured boot image including host-specific configuration data for the given cloud instance of the host. A second boot is performed on the given cloud instance of the host by executing the self-configured boot image to automatically provision the given cloud instance of the host in the cloud environment.

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  • FACILITATING LARGE-SCALE TESTING USING VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE ENVIRONMENT

    Filed US 8,489,929

    A system and method for testing in a database system. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of one or more changes to a software application, wherein each change corresponds to a different version of the software application. The method further includes generating one or more virtual machines for a version of the software application in response to the indication, wherein the one or more virtual machines test the version of the software application.

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Honors & Awards

  • Voted #1 in Top 25 Virtualization Blog 2017

    vsphere-land.com

    An annual program run by Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com which provides the opportunity to the Virtualization Community to vote for their top favorite blogs of the year.

  • Voted #2 in Top 25 Virtualization Blog 2016

    vsphere-land.com

    An annual program run by Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com which provides the opportunity to the Virtualization Community to vote for their top favorite blogs of the year.

  • Voted #2 in Top 25 Virtualization Blog 2015

    vsphere-land.com

    An annual program run by Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com which provides the opportunity to the Virtualization Community to vote for their top favorite blogs of the year.

  • 50 Must-Read IT Blogs 2014

    BizTech Magazine

    Listed in top 50 must read IT Blogs http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2014/10/50-must-read-it-blogs-2014

  • Voted #2 in Top 25 Virtualization Blog 2014

    vsphere-land.com

    An annual program run by Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com which provides the opportunity to the Virtualization Community to vote for their top favorite blogs of the year.

  • Voted #6 in Top 25 Virtualization Blog 2013

    vsphere-land.com

    An annual program run by Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com which provides the opportunity to the Virtualization Community to vote for their top favorite blogs of the year.

  • Voted #8 in Top 25 Virtualization Blog 2012

    vsphere-land.com

    An annual program run by Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com which provides the opportunity to the Virtualization Community to vote for their top favorite blogs of the year.

  • Voted #25 in Top 25 Virtualization Blog 2011

    vsphere-land.com

    An annual program run by Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com which provides the opportunity to the Virtualization Community to vote for their top favorite blogs of the year.

  • VMware NSX vExpert (2018)

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    This elite group includes bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, speakers, tool builders, community leaders and general enthusiasts. This group of individuals have passion and enthusiasm for technology, but more importantly, have demonstrated significant activity and evangelism around NSX.

  • VMware VSAN vExpert (2016-2018)

    VMware

    This elite group includes bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, speakers, tool builders, community leaders and general enthusiasts. This group of individuals have passion and enthusiasm for technology, but more importantly, have demonstrated significant activity and evangelism around vSAN.

  • VMware vExpert (2009-2020)

    VMware

    The VMware vExpert program is VMware's global evangelism and advocacy program. Each year, we bring together in the vExpert Program the people who have made some of the most important contributions to the VMware community. These are the bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, speakers, tool builders, community leaders and general enthusiasts. They work as IT admins and architects for VMware customers, they act as trusted advisors and implementors for VMware partners or as independent consultants…

    The VMware vExpert program is VMware's global evangelism and advocacy program. Each year, we bring together in the vExpert Program the people who have made some of the most important contributions to the VMware community. These are the bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, speakers, tool builders, community leaders and general enthusiasts. They work as IT admins and architects for VMware customers, they act as trusted advisors and implementors for VMware partners or as independent consultants, and some work for VMware itself. All of them have the passion and enthusiasm for technology and applying technology to solve problems. They have contributed to the success of us all by sharing their knowledge and expertise over their days, nights, and weekends.

  • Voted #1 Scripting Blog in Top 25 Virtualization Blog (2013-2017)

    vsphere-land.com

    http://vsphere-land.com/news/announcing-top-vblog-2016-category-winners.html

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