2020 - PresentColumbia, SC
The Poston Foundation
Founder & Executive Director
Founder and chief executive of a South Carolina 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on charitable program development, direct community support, and long-term institutional growth.
- Direct strategy and execution across governance, operations, finance, compliance, fundraising, partnerships, communications, and organizational development.
- Built the organization from inception by establishing its mission, operating model, governance framework, compliance infrastructure, and public-facing platform.
- Lead the Carolina Cares Initiative, mobilizing more than 50 volunteers and coordinating direct-aid outreach serving hundreds of Columbia-area residents.
- Established governance and risk-management systems, including board processes, internal controls, records protocols, regulatory filings, and foundational organizational policies.
- Built fundraising infrastructure through grant narratives, budgets, cases for support, donor communications, sponsorship materials, and partnership proposals.
- Modernized digital and donor operations through website redevelopment, fundraising workflows, analytics, search optimization, and strategic advertising planning.
- Serve as principal liaison to the board and external representative to donors, sponsors, community stakeholders, and prospective partners.
The Poston Foundation
2018 - PresentColumbia, SC
Chakhead, LLC
Co-Founder & Managing Officer
Independent media and business platform focused on strategic development, content production, digital growth, commercial execution, and intellectual property development.
- Co-founded and scaled an independent media and business enterprise spanning content development, production, digital distribution, brand execution, and intellectual property commercialization.
- Define enterprise strategy and oversee operations across branded service lines, custom engagements, and core commercial infrastructure.
- Built a multi-project media platform with 75 documented industry credits across content development, production, distribution, and commercial release.
- Lead projects from development through commercial release, overseeing budgets, rights management, distribution, and go-to-market coordination.
- Manage web, e-commerce, payment, search, and analytics infrastructure supporting a media channel with approximately 198,000 subscribers and more than 3 million cumulative views.
- Drive market positioning, business development, and strategic relationships to strengthen commercial readiness and long-term enterprise value.
Chakhead
2018 - 2022Columbia, SC
Chalmers Poston, LLC
Founder & Managing Partner
Boutique law firm providing litigation-focused, business-minded representation to individuals and businesses.
- Founded and led the firm from inception through closure, establishing its client-service model, operational infrastructure, matter-management systems, and professional standards.
- Managed dozens of complex civil and business matters from intake and case assessment through discovery, negotiation, settlement, and trial preparation.
- Developed litigation strategy and supervised factual investigation, legal research, document review, discovery, witness preparation, depositions, briefing, and other deadline-sensitive work.
- Drafted and reviewed pleadings, motions, briefs, legal memoranda, correspondence, settlement agreements, and client recommendations requiring precise analysis and persuasive advocacy.
- Negotiated resolutions and coordinated with clients, opposing counsel, courts, agencies, experts, vendors, and other stakeholders.
- Directed firm operations and implemented standardized templates, calendaring controls, and document-management workflows.
Former law firm
2016 - 2018Columbia, SC
Richardson, Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
Associate Attorney
Long-established South Carolina litigation and business law firm representing corporate, institutional, professional, and individual clients in complex civil matters.
- Represented physicians, hospitals, medical practices, outpatient facilities, and other healthcare providers in medical malpractice, professional liability, and related civil defense litigation.
- Argued motions, took depositions, and handled pleadings and discovery in medically, factually, and procedurally complex matters.
- Managed critical phases of pretrial litigation, including factual investigation, medical-record analysis, written discovery, motion practice, expert coordination, witness development, court filings, and deadline control.
- Evaluated claims involving professional standards, liability, causation, damages, evidentiary support, and potential institutional and professional exposure.
- Prepared motions, legal memoranda, pleadings, case assessments, evidentiary chronologies, and deposition materials.
- Served as defense counsel of record in federal litigation involving healthcare systems, physicians, specialty practices, and outpatient treatment facilities.
