Dr. Daniel Port, is an Assistant Professor of IT Management at
 University of Hawaii at Manoa. Prior to this, he was a Research
 Assistant Professor working with Barry Boehm at USC's Center for
 Software Engineering, where he now holds the title of Visiting
 Scholar. Dr. Port has been involved in software development process
 research, and in the development and assessment of innovative
 pedagogic techniques for software engineering education. His primary
 research activities lie in strategic and economic based software
 engineering. 
His primary research activities lie in
 strategic and economic based software engineering. He has applied the
 strategic method to COTS assessment and COTS process selection, IV&V,
 architecture flexibility, software dependability, and to IT security
 risk management with collaborators from NASA, JPL, and the Japanese
 Space Exploration Administration (JAXA). Dr. Port is the co-founder,
 with Dr. Rick Kazman, of the proposed new Center for Strategic
 Software Engineering at the University of Hawaii.