001 / Madrid, Spain
Document & Archive Systems Specialist.
Trained in Fine Arts. Wired for digital futures.
Bilingual. Out-of-the-box.
“The rarest skill is the ability to see a problem from the outside — then build the solution from the inside.”
Where Fine Arts discipline meets information systems engineering — creative thinking is not the opposite of technical rigour. It is the engine that drives it.
Iván Maeso's career is the product of an unusual and deliberately cultivated contradiction: a Fine Arts graduate — specialised in Photography at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid — who pivoted toward information systems, digital archives, and document management.
That background is not a detour. It is the source of his most distinctive asset: the ability to approach technical problems with the lateral thinking and formal rigour of an artist, and to bring genuine system-design intelligence to creative challenges.
His Master's in Libraries, Archives and Digital Continuity from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid deepened his expertise in digital object lifecycle, metadata schema design, cybersecurity in information environments, and large-scale digitisation workflows.
He holds a bilingual (native) level of English, certified by Cambridge Assessment English – ESOL. He is comfortable leading, coordinating, and communicating in both technical and public-facing contexts.
Creative Systems Thinking
Trained to dissolve boundaries between aesthetic intuition and information architecture. Sees structural solutions others miss.
Digital Archive Expertise
Vocabulary design, metadata standards, native digital and digitised document integration. Fluent in document lifecycle.
Cybersecurity Awareness
Security applied to library, archive, and document management system contexts — a rare and increasingly vital intersection.
Education & Leadership
Proved as Technical Manager coordinating vocational training programmes. Translates complexity into clear direction.
2+
Years active in retail & sales, Madrid
5
Years Fine Arts + Digital Archives education
C2
Cambridge bilingual English certification
Retail Salesperson
Décimas — Madrid, Spain
Customer-facing commercial role demanding rapid judgement, effective communication and consistent people skills under high-traffic conditions.
Sales Representative
PDS — Professional Direct Sales — Madrid, Spain
Direct sales engagement, prospecting and client management in a fast-paced commercial environment.
Technical Manager
Colegio Institución La Salle — Madrid, Spain
Led technical coordination of Vocational Employment Training (Formación para el Empleo) programmes. Applied educational leadership and adult education expertise to manage curriculum delivery, staff coordination and institutional systems.
2021 – 2022
Master in Libraries, Archives & Digital Continuity
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2015 – 2020
Bachelor of Fine Arts — Photography
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Cambridge Assessment
ESOL — Bilingual English
Cambridge Assessment English
Technical
Human & Adaptive
Open to roles in document management, digital archives, and information systems.
linkedin.com/in/ivan-maeso → ivan.maeso@email.com Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain“The best problems are the ones no-one has thought to draw a box around yet. My Fine Arts training taught me to look before the frame is placed — my technical background taught me to build what comes after.”