Technology Advisory & Assessments

ArcTangent Solutions provides advisory and assessment services focused on improving the reliability, quality, and performance of complex enterprise technology systems.

Services include:

• Enterprise technology assessments
• Software quality and reliability reviews
• Technology architecture analysis
• Technology strategy and transformation advisory
• IT operating model and service delivery design
• IT performance measurement and baseline assessment
• Service portfolio and catalog optimization
• CIO advisory and strategic technology planning

Technology Due Diligence

ArcTangent provides independent technical assessments for investors and organizations evaluating acquisitions or strategic technology investments.

Services include:

• Software portfolio assessments
• Application architecture reviews
• Patent portfolio technical reviews
• Technology team capability assessments

Software Systems Analysis

ArcTangent applies structured analysis techniques to evaluate large and complex software systems.

This can include software architecture analysis, system quality measurement, and technology risk identification.

AI Systems Validation

ArcTangent is currently exploring how established validation and quality engineering disciplines can be applied to enterprise AI systems.

Selected Clients & Experience

Experience includes work with organizations across financial services, life sciences, and technology sectors, through both direct engagements and consulting partnerships, including:

Life Sciences & Medical Devices
• Biogen
• Medtronic
• Moderna
• Sunovion Pharmaceuticals
• TEVA
• Zoetis

Investment Banking & Capital Markets
• Citigroup — Derivatives, Global Equities, High Frequency Trading
• DLJ (Credit Suisse)
• Merrill Lynch
• Republic National Bank (HSBC)

Private Banking & Wealth Management
• JPMorgan — Private Bank
• Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

Risk, Trading & Market Infrastructure
• FXall (Thomson Reuters)
• JPMorgan Chase — Risk Management Technology

Hedge Funds & Asset Management
• Citco Hedge Fund Services
• Willowstone Capital Management

Insurance
• AXA Equitable
• New York Life
• Fortress Insurance Company
• OMS National Insurance Company

Founder

Founder & Principal Consultant

Larry Cohen is a technology management consultant with more than 30 years of experience in enterprise technology systems, software quality engineering, and technology strategy.

He previously served as Chief IT Architect and Head of Quality Engineering for the IT consulting division of Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

He has successfully delivered projects across multiple industries, such as Financial Services, Digital Lending, Digital Marketing, Semiconductor, Business Services, Aerospace & Defense, Telecommunications, Risk Management, Medical Devices, Health Care, and Pharma.

Earlier roles include senior testing and quality leadership positions at Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, and Experian.

Larry holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Marc SchillerFounding Partner & CEO at Rain Partners

“Larry is a multi-talented, top-tier technical architect and senior consultant. It is hard to describe him solely as a technical architect because he has a rich background across a wide range of technologies and has applied technology to solve many different business problems. Larry is highly principled, conducts himself with great integrity, and is someone clients truly enjoy working with. It is my pleasure to serve as a strong reference for Larry based on working together for more than five years."

Bill PassoltCEO of OMSNIC and Fortress Insurance Company

"Larry asked great questions, quickly learned and understood our business, collaborated with both the business and technology sides, identified and prioritized our issues, clearly communicated effective solutions, and then led ten projects to drive improvements across my organization. I was most impressed with Larry’s passion, dedication, and persistence throughout the assessment and transformation program, and how he provided insights, outlined our options, and helped us make difficult strategic decisions."

Craig LawtonCEO of BCG Platinion North America and Senior Partner and Managing Director Boston Consulting Group

"As a Senior Partner and Managing Director at BCG, it is my pleasure to provide this recommendation for Larry, in his role as our Chief IT Architect and Head of our Quality Engineering practice. Larry is an expert in Quality Engineering and a broad array of topics across the SDLC. He has a strong work ethic, is a great team player, is very dedicated, and goes the extra mile. Members of numerous BCG teams have reached out to him for advice on a wide range of technical topics and were impressed with his detailed and insightful responses. I have been impressed with Larry's professionalism and appreciate how he has developed trusting relationships with our clients and produces high quality deliverables."

Andrew CustardVice President of Sales at SOASTA

"Managing a global initiative to improve application quality, customer experience, and performance is never easy... leading it across different organizations, new acquisitions, management, and product teams should have been brutally hard. Larry managed the process, stakeholders, competing groups, acquisition of new technology, vendor relationships, and an aggressive schedule with insight, discipline, and a steady hand. He pushed for higher standards (and got them) while never leaving the team behind. As success grew, he navigated press and marketing requests and served as a public face for the project. Larry delivers on all fronts with precision, partnership, grace and a passion for excellence."

David LauerCEO at Urvin Finance

"Larry is the best kind of CTO - a combination of deep technical knowledge and a great manager. He's extremely detail-oriented and process-oriented, but never to the detriment of project progress. If you need him to fix a problem with Linux or troubleshoot a NAS, he'll never hesitate to get his hands dirty! I've known Larry a long time, and he's always been a pleasure to work with. His knowledge is impressive, and he's always looking to combine decades of experience with a passion for cutting-edge technology."

Minor HuffmanPresident at TIBBS Consulting, CTO Advisory for Capital Markets

I brought Larry into FXall to develop a state-of-the-art performancing testing framework for our trading applications. Larry worked well with the team and our vendor and was able to quickly develop a number of innovative and supportable performance testing solutions .
I had previously brought Larry into Citigroup to develop a testing framework for the equity options market making business (CDMI), where he developed an excellent QA framework as well as implemented a test automation infrastructure that reduced the total time and increased the test coverage of our applications.

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