This smells off to me. It's like calling yourself CTO or principal engineer of a one man business. It probably worked 6 years ago and it works for getting less

This smells off to me. It's like calling yourself CTO or principal engineer of a one man business. It probably worked 6 years ago and it works for getting less experienced clients. But now you have people fresh out of college calling themselves consultants, you end up associating yourself with them.