Eric Chalmers PostonOperations | Administration | Documentation

Columbia, South Carolina

Eric Chalmers Poston

Operations and administration professional with legal training, nonprofit leadership, publishing experience, and digital project execution.

I bring structure to work that depends on careful records, clear writing, steady follow-through, and coordination across people, deadlines, and public-facing responsibilities. My background includes founding and managing organizations, building workflows, drafting documentation, coordinating service programs, and maintaining professional web and publishing systems.

Legal training University of Virginia School of Law, J.D.
Nonprofit leadership The Poston Foundation, Founder & Executive Director
Business operations Chakhead, LLC, Co-Founder & Managing Officer
Digital publishing Books, websites, metadata, and content systems

Experience

Professional Experience

March 2020 - Present

The Poston Foundation

Founder & Executive Director | Columbia, South Carolina
  • Lead a South Carolina nonprofit/public-service organization providing charitable support, essential resources, and community-based programming.
  • Built the organization's operating framework, public identity, program architecture, stakeholder communications, and digital presence.
  • Established Carolina Cares as the organization's principal initiative, mobilizing volunteer-driven outreach to deliver direct support to underserved communities.
  • Oversee governance documentation, regulatory correspondence, charitable registration materials, financial reports, and compliance-related communications.
  • Develop donor-facing and public-facing messaging across web, social, administrative, and media channels.

January 2018 - Present

Chakhead, LLC

Co-Founder & Managing Officer, Entertainment Operations, Strategy & Content | Columbia, South Carolina
  • Co-lead an entertainment and creative-services company supporting music releases, artist branding, promotional strategy, and contract-based engagements.
  • Direct business operations across service architecture, creative development, project coordination, documentation, and execution support.
  • Oversee branding, release support, content development, audience-development initiatives, and website/e-commerce implementation.
  • Established structured service offerings and repeatable internal systems to improve consistency, delivery, and scalability.

January 2018 - January 2022

Chalmers Poston, LLC

Attorney & Founder | Columbia, South Carolina
  • Founded and operated a litigation-focused practice with end-to-end workflows for intake, matter evaluation, and deadline-driven execution.
  • Managed civil matters involving fact development, document review, discovery support, case chronology, and timeline organization.
  • Drafted and reviewed pleadings, motions, correspondence, settlement documentation, and client-facing risk and next-step summaries.
  • Implemented templates, checklists, organized files, calendar control, matter tracking, recordkeeping, vendor coordination, and stakeholder communications.

Selected Work

Publishing, Content & Digital Projects

Authored and edited historical, genealogical, professional, and digital-history content, including books available through Google Books/Play and Amazon. Managed writing, editing, formatting, metadata, publication, and post-publication update workflows.

Built and maintained source files, structured content libraries, reusable content modules, metadata records, website content audits, and site-structure improvements to support consistency, clarity, and discoverability.

Skills

Core Competencies

Operations & Administration

Business operations, program coordination, nonprofit administration, workflow management, process improvement, calendar control, and stakeholder coordination.

Documentation & Compliance Support

Records management, compliance documentation, contract administration support, deadline tracking, written reporting, file organization, and risk/next-step summaries.

Content & Communications

Writing and editing, digital publishing, website content management, donor/public messaging, stakeholder communications, and public/media communications.

Digital Strategy

SEO support, content audits, metadata and structured data, digital asset organization, analytics review, and platform administration.

Education & Tools

Education and Technology

Education

University of Virginia School of Law
Juris Doctor (J.D.), May 2015

Duke University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, May 2009

Technology & Platforms

Microsoft Office Suite Google Workspace Google Analytics / GA4 Google Search Console Google Business Profile Wix / Wix Studio WordPress / Elementor WooCommerce Netlify Google Books / Play Amazon KDP Stripe Adobe Acrobat Pro Tools

Contact

Professional Inquiries

Available for employment-related conversations and professional opportunities aligned with operations, administration, documentation, content, publishing, and digital project work.