My corporate title is Construction Contract Administration Section Manager and my business cards have:
Ellis C. Whitby, AIA, PE, CSI
Construction Contract Administration Section Manager
My card just says ROBERT E. WOODBURN, RA,CSI,CCS" – due to our standard card format, it’s all caps, and the space is restricted, so there’s no room for “CCCA” (or even for space between sets of initials).
I don’t have a title. When a new secretary kept calling me “sir” I kept asking her not to, lest I start getting age-sensitive. In “title” blanks on forms, I put “architect/specifier”…
Pet names:
What I am called varies by circumstance and what my role is. I am most familiar with: Hey, you!, You idiot, and &%$* architect. The later is most often heard during and after contractor claim reviews.
I have tried for years to teach my children to address me a Lord High Emperor of the Universe, but have been singularly unsuccessful.
In the spirit of the dog who thinks her name is “No, no, bad dog”, sometimes I think my title is “That got VE’d out and we’re using this now”…
As an IndependentSpecifier, my business cards have “Specification Consultant” under my name.
TOMS MEJIA, CCS, CCCA, LEED
Specification Consultant
Lead Specifications Writer and Project Manager.
I write most of the specs in our small office, but that’s only about 25% of my time. The rest of the time, I’m wearing my architect hat or my manager hat or my marketing hat.
I suppose I could be the Assistant Chief Specifier (since we already have a Chief Specifier), but my card says “Architect/Specifier”. As pet names go, though, I guess it’s better than Fluffy.
In my previous position, I was known as “DOS” for Director of Specifications, or as “The Lord of the Specs” though I couldn’t make the specs dance a jig. Both of these titles jokingly implied a level of authority that of course was nonexistent.
In my new position, I’m called lots of things.
Officially - “Senior Associate”
Unofficially - Guru of all things not design.