Digital engagement / events / operational systems
Mostafa Tabatabaei
My work sits where live rooms, digital platforms, media production, and educational environments have to function together. Through engineering research, media operations, Stream Level Studios, h_da, and TU Darmstadt, I have learned to turn complexity into calm, usable structure.
01 / Live
Lecture halls, studios, streams, speakers, live handoffs.
02 / Digital
LMS workflows, publishing routines, prototypes, knowledge tools.
03 / Human
Students, lecturers, vendors, production teams, public audiences.
Engineering research, media rooms, learning platforms, and two master's projects.
I seem to return to the same kind of moment: a system is ready on
paper, but the human situation is still alive. Someone has to notice
the weak signal, ask the practical question, prepare the handoff, and
make the room feel calmer than it is.
That habit began before the university roles: applied engineering research, patent work, Kharazmi recognition, media operations, and two master's projects in collaboration and immersive learning.
Hard anchors
Scale and context.
A few scale markers behind the work: large student environments, funded platform initiatives, live rooms, public engagement, and international research contexts.
7+
years moving between media operations, university systems, live rooms, and public-facing projects.
20,000+
students in the institutional environment around the digital learning work.
€300K
platform initiative context where planning, workflow clarity, and coordination mattered.
EMEA
work across German university settings, international collaborators, vendors, and mixed cultures.
Selected recognition
Recognition, kept to the essentials.
Experience
Where the work became real.
Different environments, same requirement: reliable systems, clear handoffs, and work that holds under pressure.
Higher Education
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Digital Learning & Operations / 2023-2025
At TU Darmstadt, the work was close to the everyday reality of digital learning at scale: LMS workflows, hybrid learning moments, academic requests, publishing routines, support questions, and the small checks that protect a much larger system.
Applied Sciences
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
eLearning & Instructional Support
At h_da I worked close to teaching and learning support: preparing digital materials, helping users, understanding how instructional needs become platform actions, and seeing how students and lecturers experience the system.
Studio Production
Stream Level Studios
Hybrid Production & Studio Work
Stream Level Studios gave me a more physical understanding of live digital work: cameras, sound, light, screens, timing, and the pressure of a room where every small technical decision becomes part of the audience experience.
Public Engagement
Independent Educational Exhibition Initiative
Concept Lead & Event Operations
Before the university platform work, I independently built an educational exhibition initiative inspired by the "1001 Inventions" concept. It meant sponsorship conversations, budgets, venues, invitations, programme structure, logistics, and the nerve to turn an idea into a public event plan.
Media Operations
Akharin Khabar
Media & Digital Operations
Akharin Khabar taught me speed and content flow: deadlines, publishing rhythm, audience attention, and the operational discipline behind media that appears simple only when the work is done well.
Work
Rooms, platforms, people.
Live rooms, learning systems, media workflows, and research prototypes; the practical work is making them usable for the people depending on them.
Chapter 01
Live
Hybrid rooms and studio work
From Stream Level Studios to university hybrid environments, I have worked around the physical reality of digital events: cameras, control desks, microphones, speaker rhythm, remote audiences, and the quiet pressure of getting the moment right.
- Focus: readiness checks, signal awareness, speaker support, stream and studio coordination.
- Value: less confusion in the room, fewer avoidable surprises, calmer live moments.
Chapter 02
Digital
Learning platforms and publishing routines
At TU Darmstadt and h_da, digital learning was not an abstract system. It was lecturers trying to teach, students trying to access material, and operations work turning that into something dependable.
- Focus: LMS workflows, QA routines, publishing paths, user support, vendor follow-up.
- Value: fewer unclear steps for the people who depend on the system.
Chapter 03
Bridge
Translation between worlds
A large part of my work is standing between languages: academic priorities, technical limits, vendor responses, production needs, and users who simply need the thing to work.
- Focus: practical communication, issue escalation, handoffs, shared expectations.
- Value: people can act without needing to understand every hidden technical layer.
Studio & hybrid rooms
Control desks, live signals, and the discipline of readiness.
Stream Level Studios and university hybrid rooms taught me the practical side of digital delivery: timing, speaker flow, technical monitoring, and steady attention.
Applied digital learning
Digital tools tested at human scale.
Lab filming, VR, sound, and user testing belong beside platform operations because educational technology only matters when people can actually use it.
Flüsterwald field work
Field recording for an immersive learning concept.
Developed with Valentin Boczkowski from an original concept led by Valentin, the project used field recording and 3D audio to support environmental learning through listening.
Research & creative practice
Research applied to learning environments.
Two master's projects strengthened the same practical interest: collaboration, learning environments, media, and how people behave inside systems.
That thesis began with a practical problem: creative student teams often get stuck not because they lack talent, but because the group itself becomes unclear. I used literature review, surveys, interviews, and a platform prototype to make collaboration patterns more visible to students and tutors.
UX prototype
Collaboration systems
Qualitative research
Educational platforms
Flüsterwald asked whether children could meet a forest through listening. Co-authored with Valentin Boczkowski and based primarily on Valentin's original concept, the project combined transmedia educational media, 3D audio, field recording, story, outdoor exploration in Darmstadt, and sensory learning for children around 8-11.
3D audio
Transmedia
Interactive learning
Experience design
What I bring
Core capabilities.
Practical strengths repeated across media desks, studios, universities, exhibitions, research prototypes, and platform operations.
Events & Engagement
- Hybrid lecture and event coordination
- Speaker and room readiness
- Audience-facing flow
- Studio and stream awareness
Operations
- LMS and publishing workflows
- QA checks and issue follow-up
- Vendor and stakeholder coordination
- Budget and process awareness
Leadership
- Translating between teams
- Clear handoffs under pressure
- Facilitation and practical communication
- Agile coordination
Public Engagement
- Educational exhibitions
- Research and innovation settings
- Invitations and programme structure
- Explaining technical work to mixed audiences
Evidence
Selected artefacts.
A small set of proof points: production rooms, thesis prototypes, research diagrams, field audio, and public engagement settings.
Production room
Hybrid event control environment
Screens, audio, cameras, switching, speaker feeds: the operating layer behind a stable live academic session.
Research workflow
Creative Group Dynamics research path
Literature review, problem framing, survey and interview work, validation, concept design, prototyping, and feedback.
Prototype screen
Team progress interface
Part of a platform concept for making student collaboration and tutor visibility easier to read.
Flüsterwald audio
Listening as an educational interface
Developed with Valentin Boczkowski from Valentin's original concept; my contribution included research, field work, 3D audio, and experience design support.
Public engagement
Ideas explained in public settings
Public-facing innovation and exhibition environments, where technical ideas have to become clear to mixed audiences.
Method
Keeping complex work usable.
I try to do the useful things early: understand dependencies, name risks, prepare handoffs, and give people enough clarity before the pressure arrives.
Read
Look at the room before touching the system.
Who depends on whom, what can fail quietly, and what does the user or organiser need before the moment starts?
Align
Make the invisible work visible.
Clear roles, known handoffs, practical timing, and language people can act on without decoding it first.
Deliver
Stay steady when there is no pause button.
Support the moment with attention, issue management, stakeholder communication, and practical judgement.
Refine
Leave the system easier for the next person.
Capture patterns, reduce friction, improve checks, and turn lessons into a process someone else can trust.
Digital Strategy & AI Workflows
A practical extension of the same work.
Recent work in website strategy, content structure, and AI workflows adds a useful layer: mapping what a visitor needs, structuring information clearly, and using AI only where human QA remains in charge.
I look at how people arrive, what they need to trust, and what they should understand next: visitor journeys, customer journey mapping, navigation, and content structure.
Visitor journey
Customer journeys
Website structure
Content structure
NotebookLM and prompt-led workflows help turn PDFs, notes, and project material into summaries, comparisons, draft structures, and rapid prototypes. The useful part is speed with judgement.
NotebookLM
Prompt engineering
Rapid prototypes
Human QA
Working style
Clear, steady, practical.
The useful part is rarely dramatic. It is noticing what is unclear early enough to make the work easier for everyone else.
Composure
Steady attention when timing, technology, and people all matter.
Translation
Technical detail, academic need, production pressure, and plain language.
Structure
Visible roles, checks, handoffs, and next steps before they become urgent.
Care
Attention to the person receiving the experience, not only the system delivering it.
Toolkit
Working toolkit.
A concise set of tools and practices I use to structure research, learning environments, digital engagement, and delivery work.
NotebookLM
AI-assisted research workflows
Knowledge synthesis
LMS operations
Hybrid events
Stakeholder coordination
Customer journey mapping
Website structure
UX-informed systems thinking
Digital engagement
Professional enquiries
Contact
For professional conversations around digital engagement, hybrid events, educational systems, media operations, and institutional delivery.
