Irene Woodall

Self-motivated former entrepreneur with a strong work ethic and formal education in Business. Dedicated and personable hard worker with a clear understanding of the importance/value of the customer. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet goals. Works well with a team.

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I grew up, and have spent most of my life, on an island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay called Tangier Island, Virginia. My parents were both entrepreneurs who insisted that my sister and I go to work at our mother's retail business at early ages. I married straight out of high school and had my son at twenty-two. At twenty-three, I started my first retail business...a small home decorations business, which lasted for years and took on many forms over the course of approximately 11 years.

By the age of twenty-four, I was divorced and had to make a living on my own with no formal education. By my late twenties, I ran my business very part-time from the island and worked in Delaware so that my son, Jaxson, could try out a school for the purpose of helping with some delays and speech issues. Jaxson never seemed to fully adjust to life off the island at that age, so we moved back to the island. I resumed my retail business and started another, which focused on the sale of small furniture and furniture restoration/refinishing. By my thirties, I decided to go to college online and get a Business degree. Having owned and operated my own businesses for years, my online college classes were pretty easy to adjust to. I graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business in 2018.

Also in 2018, I began renovations on an old boutique hotel, which I was able to fully pay off within the first year of opening thanks to a contract I hunted down and scored with the Virginia Department of Transportation. I met with them repeatedly trying to prove my hotel could be/would be ready for them...and it was. They were sending in a crew to build two bridges on the island and I was blessed to be the hotel that got to house them for 6 months.

At the end of 2020, I remarried and moved to Georgia with my husband and son where we live more than half of the year. We still have our home in Virginia as well, but due to the fact that we are not on the island as much, as well as the disruption that was Covid-19, I ultimately decided to sell the hotel in 2021.

Since 2021, I have been a stay-at-home mom helping my son with home schooling, which has since led to his graduating high school a year earlier than anticipated! I am now ready to get back to work!

I work exceptionally well remotely, and I am equally dedicated to my tasks/goals in any environment. I have been raised with a strong work ethic, as well as with a strong sense of ethics and moral code. My business experience has allowed me to understand the importance of knowing/understanding company rules and policies, and to know the invaluable role of the customer. I enjoy customer service and am able to maintain a professional attitude while also making people for cared for.