Surfworks Energy Consulting helps data center operators in PJM and the Dominion Zone cut capacity and transmission costs with battery storage, and builds the high-performance infrastructure that powers the analysis. Founded by Morris Meyer in Sterling, Virginia.
Power is the largest operating cost in the building. Surfworks quantifies, designs, and de-risks the storage and interconnection strategies that bring it down.
Fixed-fee assessment quantifying how co-located battery storage cuts PJM 5CP capacity and Dominion Zone 12CP transmission charges. Backtested against your actual interval load across three measurement years, with board-ready pro formas integrating GS-5 rate mechanics, the federal investment tax credit, Virginia Code 58.1-3660 exemptions, and C-PACE financing.
Reference architecture for microgrid-class data center campuses: behind-the-meter storage, district thermal integration, an MVDC ring interconnecting campuses with community solar and storage, and a distribution system operator envelope under Virginia interconnection rules. Includes ride-through analysis of the July 2024 Eastern Interconnection event in which roughly 1,500 MW of data center load disconnected.
Flexible-load interconnection and dispatch for data center participation in wholesale markets: PJM and Dominion interconnection standards, ERCOT Controllable Load Resource qualification, ICCP/TASE.2 control center integration, and OpenADR demand response signaling.
Systemwide analysis of how storage-flattened data center load suppresses capacity and energy clearing prices and defers transmission buildout, quantifying residential ratepayer impacts against the 2024 JLARC data center study. Grounded in four years chairing the Loudoun County Environmental Commission's Sustainable Energy Committee, a drafted Virginia community choice aggregation bill, and active Virginia SCC engagement.
Four active projects spanning the full systems stack, from FPGA bitstreams to GPU compilers to kernel modules to cross-language data protection. The same hands that model the megawatts build the infrastructure.
High-performance Go/Java serialization layer using Apache Fory, achieving 1.5–1.9× faster throughput than Google Protobuf through hand-optimized serializers with deferred error checking. Hardened two-process container architecture using GraalVM native-image and musl static linking — 9.2 MB scratch container, zero inherited CVEs.
High-performance file transfer engine targeting wire-speed on 100 GbE Mellanox links using JDK 26 QUIC transport, memory-mapped zero-copy I/O, BBRv2 congestion control, and multi-stream virtual-thread parallelism with zero per-packet allocation. NVMe-oF-QUIC Linux kernel module with TLS 1.3, CNSA 2.0 crypto, x86_64 and ARM64.
Open-source ML compiler eliminating GPU vendor lock-in with equivalent NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm backends through pure Java FFM bindings, with no native JNI code. Full GraalPy PyTorch-to-GPU pipeline spanning model tracing, StableHLO IR, and hardware-specific code generation targeting cuBLAS and hipBLAS.
Domain-specific language compiling pipeline programs to FPGA bitstreams and eBPF bytecode for computational storage, built on GraalVM Truffle and ANTLR. Applied to a GPU-accelerated whole-genome variant calling pipeline with zero-copy BAM parsing, SIMD-vectorized analysis, and RDMA-networked custom lab hardware.
Senior Systems Architect with 39 years of software and computer engineering experience across energy, embedded systems, security, and high-performance storage. Previously at Wärtsilä (Senior Systems Architect, GEMS energy operating system), Greensmith (IEC 62443 cybersecurity certification, SCADA commissioning), and Oracle (JavaFX graphics team lead, HotSpot-Graal GPU compiler for the open-source Sumatra project).
Security lineage traces to Tristrata Security, founded by John Atalla, inventor of the PIN and Hardware Security Module. Career-long focus on environments where security is non-negotiable: IEC 62443 for industrial control systems, air-gapped DoD networks, and zero-CVE container architectures.
Purdue BSCE. Penn State MS in Renewable Energy & Sustainability Systems. Six years on the JDK platform at Oracle. 30 years of Java.