Personal Profile

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Gervais is a fearless and adaptive individual where delivery results and customer success is paramount. I believe in Agile and I have wtnessed amazing results.

Successfully architected complex applications and delivered business value results for several Fortune 1000 companies, ensuring business objectives were met for high profile mission critical investments. Examples of mission critical solutions delivered are: Case Management, CyberSecurity Solutions, Sales, Insurance Core Systems, Web/Mobile, Data Analytics, Cognitive Computing, Health Insurance, Bank Core Account and Payment, Bank Fraud/AML, eCommerce/Retail and Bank applications leveraging current and emerging technology.  Within my 17 year tenure at IBM I have led the IBM GBS Agile and DevOps Practice, led key areas within GBS Financial Services, transformed many IBM client organizations and trained over 2000 people in Agile.

Currently I am the National Agile Practice Director for MATRIX where I am helping clients adopt Agile and transform organizations and teams to meet business goals. 

Currently I am the Executive Director of (TEMSCORP) TEMS Incorporated which provides intelligently automated application configuration integrated with environment management in our Omnium product. Omnium is the best of class solution for solving the critical problems of managing environments and DevOps during software development.

I am the founder of Impavid Consulting Inc, and Impavid Agile.  Where I develop and provide tought leadership to help clients meet their application delivery and organization change goals. Invented Impavid Agile, Gateway to Agile, Agile Ecosystem and Dark Agile. Published serveral articles and IBM work.