• Studied the service oriented architecture based software implementation models, using IBM’s white papers. • Studied, in depth, the web service specification and communication models, specifically WSDL, XSD, JSON and REST. • Implemented the IBM Websphere Message Broker architecture, for orchestrating the SOAP and/or JSON based web services to the end user web and mobile interfaces. • Implemented network security mechanisms on IBM’s Data power, using SSL and Kerberos, for securing REST based web services, hosted on legacy Unix systems. • Implemented queue based load balancing, for high traffic web services, using the IBM Websphere Message Queuing application.