For the last 9 of his 23 years with IBM, he has been a part of the WebSphere development team. For the past 6 years he has focused on web services, starting with the JAX-RPC web services engine. Phil was responsible for the design and implementation of the SOAP/JMS support introduced in the WebSphere® Application Server 5.0.2 release, and has been involved in designing and implementing various enhancements to the SOAP/JMS support since then. Phil is now a member of the W3C SOAP/JMS Working Group, whose mission is to produce a SOAP/JMS interoperability specification