In need of a new title
Just like the Childlike Empress in the Never Ending Story I am right now without a proper name for my new role.
Yes, that is right, I slipped into a new role in my current job and boy is it something I wanted to do for years and years. However, the dilemma I am in is that the job is so versatile and multi-facetted that I have trouble coming up with a proper job title! This is where you come in. Can you think of a good job title that explains my following responsibilities?
Responsible for the following key areas related to Code Quality, Code Reuse, Talent Acquisition and Talent Development.
- Internal training and code review in key technologies and development standards.
- External evangelism and assessment of these technologies through the engagement of developer communities.
- Supporting internal teams in identifying, assessing and hiring new talent.
- Developing new tools that will support development standards to help us build better products faster.
- Build and maintain front-end code libraries for reuse
Any ideas?
[tags]whatsinaname,title,jobtitles,developer,webdevelopment[/tags]
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:05 pm
“Master of Puppets”, “Root of All Good”, “One Chef to Train Them All”, “The Overmage”, “The i-com Factor” and so on, and so on. :) :)
But the word “Manager” must be definitely there: “Quality Manager”, “QoS Manager”.
And my favorite: “Mr. Manager”
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 pm
tech evangelist
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:18 pm
lord of the code, overseer of the clean code, quality code practitioner manager educator…
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 pm
At first I thought ‘Web Evangelist’ but upper management may not like that; it also has religious connotations which may or may not be appropriate for you. Then I thought ‘Web Enabler’. I thought I was on to a winner till Google informed me that enabler are people that can help a self destructive person remain in self destructive – not so good.
Then my brain stopped working, it’s been a long day.
July 4th, 2007 at 1:52 am
I’d go with Tech Lead. Short but broad enough to cover all that you do.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Heilmannager?
July 4th, 2007 at 7:15 am
“Chief Geek” or possibly “McGyver”.
Otherwise: “Head Code Marketing Evangelism Guru” or perhaps “My Title Is Longer Than Yours. Now. It really is. Hah.”
:)
July 4th, 2007 at 8:25 am
You’re under ‘WebGurus’ in my GoogleReader rss aggregator (Accessibility & Ajax too)
July 4th, 2007 at 9:57 am
LucaPost’s idea is not that bad, consedering for whatever reason that more and more people associate ‘evangelist’ with religion, although it’s been used in the tech world for many years now.
Yet guru as a self-chosen title seems a bit too er… immodest.
I’d stick to the Web Evangelist bit.
(on my visit cards I wrote “web HCI expert”, but not sure it says a lot, and I hate the word ‘expert’, actually, but my company needs to know who knows the job and who doesn’t, so we’re not afraid of big words…)
July 4th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
hmm, perhaps Technology Quality and Development Manager?
July 4th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
God?
July 4th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
MOT
Master of TechNinjas
July 4th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
How about Web Technology Foreman
July 4th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
I have a similar role at my company and after much thought, I felt that “Web Application Developer” was an appropriate title. You might want to be “Executive Web Application Developer” _
July 4th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Whatever you pick, make sure that the corresponding domain name is available ;-)
July 4th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Head Librarian? Seriously though, it’s tricky since I guess whatever it turns out to be will no doubt have to fit with / differeniate from other peoples job title’s? So let us know a few…
July 5th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Technology Engineer Evangelist
July 5th, 2007 at 8:22 am
I think the words chief (because its a good word and should be in more job titles), web, quality, technology and recruitment should be in there. So….
Chief: web tech, recruitment and quality.
As much as I tried I couldn’t get a food acronym out of that!
July 5th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Head Burger Flipper
July 7th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Web Craftsmanship Lead
Head Web Craftsman
Anyway something that gets across the responsibility of promoting quality and craftsmanship and fostering the growth of fellow developers. It’s a complex job!
July 13th, 2007 at 5:54 am
Nate K had a great title on his business cards. I can’t remember what it was but it evoked good feelings. If I remember correctly, it had some all-american commie vibes.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Where I work we call the regular code monkeys like meself ‘User Interface Engineer’ and the role you just described would be titled ‘User Interface Architect’.