Mostafa Tabatabaei
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Mostafa Tabatabaei

Designing systems, experiences, and operations that scale.

More than a decade translating engineering research, media operations, institutional systems, and public engagement into scalable delivery.

Digital learning systems, educational media, and operational delivery across institutional environments.

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Germany / EMEA Systems / Experiences / Operations
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01 / Cognitive practice

How I
think.

Research-informed systems thinking across institutional learning systems, knowledge synthesis, and translating complexity into operational clarity.

I examine the whole environment before changing a part: people, constraints, technical dependencies, service ownership, and the conditions required for an idea to remain useful after implementation.

02 / Leadership practice

How I
lead.

I work between disciplines, aligning people, systems, priorities, and practical delivery. This includes hybrid events, studio productions, public-facing institutional formats, and stakeholder environments where technical readiness and audience experience had to align.

Make complexity discussable. Make decisions actionable. Make delivery dependable.
  1. 01Align the roomStakeholders, ownership, priorities
  2. 02Translate disciplinesAcademic, technical, creative, vendor
  3. 03Protect deliveryReadiness, contingency, handover
  4. 04Represent wellPartners, institutions, public settings

03 / Flagship system

How I
execute.

Automated Lecture Recording & Hybrid Learning Infrastructure

My role combined requirements analysis, workflow design, stakeholder alignment, vendor coordination, and implementation planning for an institution-scale digital learning and media ecosystem at TU Darmstadt.

€300K+infrastructure context

20,000+users

26,500+recordings

Digital learning infrastructureLMS/Panopto workflows Automated lecture recordingHybrid learning operations AV workflowsImplementation planning Cost modelling

04 / Designed encounters

How I design
experiences.

Designing for group dynamics, not only individual tasks.

Explored how group dynamics influence collaboration quality and designed concepts for digitally supported teamwork environments.

UX prototypeCollaboration systems Qualitative researchHuman QA

Environmental education through immersive storytelling.

Transmedia structure, 3D audio, interactive media, user testing, and educational experience design.

Developed within a collaborative interdisciplinary project, with my contribution focused on educational media development, transmedia structure, immersive audio, user testing, and project realisation.

Trusted media delivery when the institutional moment is live.

Led digital media delivery for hybrid events and institutional productions involving HIGHEST, emergenCITY, and university initiatives.

Streaming operationsRecording workflows Remote participationLive issue management

SchlossStudio production and technical coordination included high-level institutional meetings involving university leadership.

Collaboration Systems / research process
Ambisonic field recording for Flüsterwald
Flüsterwald / spatial sound field research
Hybrid lecture capture setup in a university teaching environment
Hybrid Media / capture environment
Mostafa Tabatabaei operating hybrid media production controls
Hybrid Media / live production control

05 / Institutional record

Where I have
done it.

Trusted delivery across educational systems, executive communications, hybrid productions, and high-visibility institutional environments.

  • 20,000+ user environment
  • €300K+ infrastructure context
  • LMS, Panopto, AV infrastructure, tutor support, and digital learning operations

Supported digital learning, instructional media, and student-facing learning environments across academic and project contexts.

  • Online learning and course-support workflows
  • Instructional media and learner-facing materials
  • Faculty, student, and partner coordination
  • eLearning support, learning design, and student-facing digital learning environments

Led digital media and publishing workflows in a high-volume public-facing platform environment.

  • 7M+ user media platform environment
  • Audience and content-flow coordination
  • Disciplined live publishing delivery

06 / Academic formation

Academic
formation.

Engineering foundations in Iran. Leadership and media specialisation in Germany. Operational execution within European higher education.

Hochschule Darmstadt · Germany

M.A. Expanded Media M.A. Leadership in the Creative Industries

Shandiz Institute of Higher Education · Iran

B.Sc. Business Administration

07 / Origins

Where it
started.

Before higher education and digital learning systems: engineering research, applied innovation, and public engagement.

Engineering taught me to build systems. Media taught me to deliver under pressure. Research taught me to understand people. Institutional work brought all three together at scale.
Archival engineering research acceptance document from Osaka
Applied engineering research / intelligent pipeline inspection
Archival magnetic gear research document from Osaka
Applied engineering research / magnetic gear modelling
Archival international engineering research document from Kuala Lumpur
International academic recognition / Beijing, Osaka, Kuala Lumpur
National Kharazmi Festival emblem
National research recognition / Kharazmi Festival
Iran National Elites Foundation emblem
National research recognition / National Elites Foundation

08 / Contact

Open to professional conversations around systems, experiences, and operational delivery.

Emailm.tabatabaei@m-tabatabaei.com LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/mtabataba

LocationGermany / EMEA

StatusBased in Germany · Unrestricted work authorisation