2020 - PresentColumbia, SC
The Poston Foundation
Founder & Executive Director
Founder and chief executive of a South Carolina 501(c)(3) public charity focused on direct community support, charitable program development, and sustainable institutional growth.
- Direct organizational strategy and oversee operations, finance, compliance, fundraising, partnerships, and communications; support board governance and serve as principal liaison to external stakeholders.
- Defined the organization's mission and built its operating model, governance framework, compliance systems, internal controls, recordkeeping protocols, and core policies from inception.
- Launched the Carolina Cares Initiative, mobilizing 50+ volunteers and coordinating direct-aid outreach serving hundreds of Columbia-area residents.
- Build fundraising capacity through grant narratives, program budgets, cases for support, donor communications, sponsorship materials, and partnership proposals.
- Modernized donor and public-facing operations through website redevelopment, donation workflows, analytics, search optimization, and campaign planning.
The Poston Foundation
2018 - PresentColumbia, SC · Part-time
Chakhead, LLC
Co-Founder & Managing Officer
Independent entertainment and media company developing, producing, distributing, and commercializing music and media intellectual property.
- Co-founded and direct the enterprise, setting strategy across content development, production, release planning, brand services, and intellectual property commercialization.
- Oversee operations across service lines, custom engagements, budgets, rights management, distribution, and go-to-market execution.
- Built a multi-project platform encompassing 75 documented industry credits and led multi-channel campaigns generating 60+ million cumulative views.
- Manage web, e-commerce, payment, search, and analytics infrastructure supporting a media channel with approximately 198,000 subscribers and 3+ million cumulative views.
- Lead market positioning, business development, and strategic partnerships to strengthen commercial readiness and long-term enterprise value.
Chakhead
2018 - 2022Columbia, SC
Chalmers Poston, LLC
Founder & Managing Partner
Former boutique law firm that provided litigation-focused, business-minded representation to individuals and businesses.
- Founded and led the firm, establishing its client-service model, operating infrastructure, matter-management systems, and professional standards.
- Managed dozens of complex civil and business matters from intake and case assessment through investigation, discovery, negotiation, settlement, and trial preparation.
- Developed litigation strategy and directed legal research, document review, written discovery, witness preparation, depositions, motion practice, and briefing.
- 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, counsel, courts, agencies, experts, and vendors; implemented standardized templates, calendaring controls, and document workflows that strengthened quality control and deadline management.
Former law firm
2016 - 2018Columbia, SC
Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A.
Associate Attorney
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 managed pleadings, written discovery, and court filings in medically, factually, and procedurally complex matters.
- Managed critical pretrial phases, including factual investigation, medical-record analysis, motion practice, expert coordination, witness development, and deadline control.
- Evaluated standards of care, liability, causation, damages, evidentiary support, and institutional exposure; prepared motions, memoranda, case assessments, chronologies, and deposition materials.
- Served as defense counsel of record in federal litigation involving healthcare systems, physicians, specialty practices, and outpatient treatment facilities.
