StephenOldfield

The Oldfield Broadsheet — Est. 2026

About

The same discipline, at different scales

I run a public transportation system by day and build systems the rest of the time. This page is the whole picture.

The day job

I'm the Administrator & CEO of the Montachusett Regional Transit Authority in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. MART runs fixed-route buses, paratransit, and microtransit for the Montachusett region — and alongside that, I oversee the statewide Human Service Transportation brokerage, one of the largest coordinated transportation programs in Massachusetts, connecting MassHealth members to medical care through a network of transportation providers across the Commonwealth.

In practice that means operations, finance, compliance, technology, vendor networks, and public accountability — answerable to a board, to municipalities, and to state agencies. I'm a systems thinker, not a silo manager: the job is connecting operations, data, people, policy, and technology into one integrated view, and building teams that are trusted, supported, and held to a high standard.

How I got here

I came up operations-first in the private sector — starting as an intern at a national market research firm in Fitchburg and working my way to Chief Operating Officer over eight years. In 2021 I moved to public service to lead the Commonwealth's largest HST brokerage as Executive Director, and in 2026 the MART board appointed me Administrator & CEO. The full record is on the resume page.

The builder half

Outside the authority, I build things — some digital, most not. I run my work and home life through an AI second brain I built: a system that reads the inbox, files the paperwork, and leaves me the decisions. On the land it's garden and grow systems, a tractor with too many implements, and long-term home infrastructure. Same discipline either way: clear systems, built to hold up, improved a season at a time.

I'm also the founder of Common Ground Grow Co., a company I'm building around outdoor grow systems and practical self-reliance.

The point of it all

I'm a husband and a father of two boys. The rest of this — the career, the systems, the land — is in service of building a stable, capable, meaningful life for them. We hunt and fish as a family; I'd rather fill the freezer ourselves than not know where dinner came from, and I'd rather my sons learn to build, fix, and grow things than watch someone else do it.

This is my personal site. Everything here is my own view, written in my own voice — if you want the official MART line, that's what the authority's own channels are for.