It could reflect well on you, add to your story as an effective computer consultant/scientist if in your personal life you study all the angles of a system and use them to your advantage or automate as much of your for instance, financial life as possible. I have a few examples.

Here's an extreme one. I have a friend James who realized that brick and mortar banks really didn't pay great interest rates. Banks like ETrade and ING Direct do but you give up the convenience of a bank branch. He found a bank branch where it was free to transfer money to and from Etrade for a checking account. James came up with intricate systems to funnel money from a PNC bank checking account to an ETrade account. Now, he earns the higher interest rate while maintaining the convenience of a bank branch. Also, Etrade has ATMs in many Target stores. It sound like a lot of work but he maintains it's not bad once you are set up to do it. As long as transfer back and forth remains free, you could be talking about $500 more a year or more given enough capital you have just sitting in a regular savings account.

For myself, I've had the idea of young children who will need to go to college one day. I've only now automated deductions monthly to my IRA and their college funds. I have been playing around with my banks bill pay feature which I believe is now free. I'll plan to implement as many money saving, financial automating systems as possible next year and chronicle the savings. I'm also trying to reduce my $90/month cell phone bill. I'll show you the math on that once I figure it out myself. I plan to compare past bills to understand my profile and put those numbers against the "pay as you go" plans.

A systems person who studies all sorts of systems in the pursuit of an advantage personally or to his business or employer consistently in many aspects of their life is someone I would want to have around. It's much better if you can document the effects as proof that others should follow the example.