Willard Kramer

Former electrical engineer, computer programmer and integration specialist in New York, NY. Senior Associate, SMG Program, at the SIFMA Foundation.

About

I graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1982, then studied electrical engineering at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, earning a BS in 1986 and an MS in 1988.

I began my Wall Street technical career in 1990. My early work covered foreign exchange front-end deal entry, live data feeds and data collection, in C, C++, Java and DB2, with a focus on database design and data retrieval.

For the past 27 years I have worked at the SIFMA Foundation, where I am a Senior Associate for The Stock Market Game (SMG). I joined the program as a technical consultant and integration specialist, putting together the many pieces of the SMG simulation, and systems integration is still the core of what I do.

Away from work I build and tune my own computing setup, and I write up what I learn here.

Projects

Mac mini setupMy play toy: an Apple M6 Mac mini with Thunderbolt storage, a USB dock, two monitors and a wired network, with measured speeds and Thunderbolt troubleshooting notes. Mac Work Book ProOn loan from work: an Apple M5 Pro laptop with 48 GB of memory on a Thunderbolt 5 dock, with the drives and speeds measured on it. Dev environmentEverything a Mac needs for development in one repository: packages, shell and git settings, and fast file copies between Macs.

Contact

Email willardk@gmail.com.