- 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.
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.
Experience
Professional Experience
- 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.
- 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.
Historical role. No legal services are offered through this website.
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
Contact
Professional Inquiries
Available for employment-related conversations and professional opportunities aligned with operations, administration, documentation, content, publishing, and digital project work.