Lisa McBee recently joined WICT as Director of Chapter Services. Lisa grew up in the tranquility of the Blue Ridge Mountains but now calls West Virginia “home” as most of her immediate family resides there. Lisa loves all types of music and, while in high school, began her early career as an On-Air personality for a small, local radio station in Waynesboro, Virginia. She graduated from Radford University with a BA in Speech Communications but with an emphasis on Radio/TV. While at Radford, Lisa hosted several radio programs including a Rock and Bluegrass hour, as well as, worked “behind the scenes” for the WVRU nightly news program. After graduating, Lisa worked briefly at an ABC affiliate in Harrisonburg, Virginia as a Production Assistant. She was quickly offered a position as Broadcast Technician for Radio Marti as part of the Voice of America in Washington D.C. While at Radio Marti, Lisa assisted in the production and post-editing of numerous Spanish-language programs which broadcast daily to Cuba and Latin America.
From there, she moved into the world of satellite communications with Intelsat Ltd., also in Washington D.C., as a Satellite Space Coordinator and Supervisor for an award winning, 24/7 Customer Service department. Her last 2 years at Intelsat Ltd. was spent driving new product initiatives as a Senior Program Manager working across the board to ensure project understanding and completion. Lisa’s most challenging work came during her employment with National Headquarters of the American Red Cross where she was hired to implement, expand and sustain a nationwide and readily available Call Center known as the “Response Center Network” during the unprecedented time of the 2004 Florida Hurricanes and, most notably, Hurricane Katrina and Rita in 2005. Most recently, Lisa was employed as a Senior Manager for a VOIP-based service, Lingo Inc., affiliated with Primus Telecommunications in McLean, Virginia.
Besides loving music and her family, Lisa has traveled extensively and has written various screenplays for film as she hopes to someday accept an “Academy Award” for best original screenplay. Lisa and her fiancé, Walter Granados, live in Springfield, Virginia.