Web Services Guru Needed

I am working on two projects that need to share data and it looks like web services will be the best option. These projects may influence the standards of other similar projects.

I want to make sure that the web services are written in a manner that will be viable for future use across any projects of this type (which will likely be written in differing programming languages). Since I don't yet have any production experience with web services, I would certainly like to have someone available for (paid) consulting.

If anyone has a solid foundation in web services and might be available for some consulting work, please let me know. You can contact me using my contact form, or you can send me an email (my first name at my domain name).