Mostafa Tabatabaei

Learning technology, hybrid event operations, and media infrastructure for higher education.

I connect LMS and video platforms, AV workflows, live formats, and stakeholder needs into practical services people can use reliably.

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

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 event coordination, live institutional formats, studio and streaming production environments, stakeholder and speaker coordination, and technical readiness under live conditions. I treat event operations as part of institutional delivery, aligning audience experience with dependable execution.

Make complexity discussable. Make decisions actionable. Make delivery dependable.

01Align the roomStakeholders, ownership, priorities
02Translate disciplinesAcademic, technical, creative, vendor
03Protect deliveryReadiness, contingency, handover
04Represent wellPartners, institutions, public settings

03 / Flagship system

How I
execute.

Automated Lecture Recording & Hybrid Learning Infrastructure

My work sat across two connected but distinct strands: supporting institution-scale video and learning-platform operations, including LMS, Panopto and AV workflows across tens of thousands of recordings; and designing, prototyping, and delivering a working automated lecture recording solution with implementation planning for a more scalable hybrid learning model.

20,000+user environment

Tens of thousandsof recordings in the operational video/LMS ecosystem

€300K+infrastructure planning context

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.

Supported professional studio, livestream, and hybrid productions for educational, promotional, and research-facing formats, translating stakeholder requirements into technically reliable, audience-focused delivery.

Studio setupMulti-camera recording Chroma keyLighting optimisation Audio monitoringLivestream support

Institutional reference Learn more about SchlossStudio at TU Darmstadt

SchlossStudio work included technical preparation, recording and broadcast support, green-screen productions where personally involved, live troubleshooting, audio and post-production workflows, and coordination from preparation through delivery. Productions involved presenters, researchers, academics, multidisciplinary teams, and senior university stakeholders including the President and Vice Presidents of TU Darmstadt.

Selected institutions and initiatives across my work in Germany

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 · 2020–2023 M.A. Leadership in the Creative Industries · 2018–2020

Shandiz Institute of Higher Education · Iran

B.Sc. Business Administration · 2016–2018

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.