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East Chicago Ind.-native Joseph Alvarado graduated from the University of Notre Dame (Ind.) in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and earned a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University in Ithaca N.Y. in 1976.
Mr. Alvarado has spent his entire career in steelmaking beginning with his first job after completing his master’s degree. He was hired by Inland Steel Company in 1976 to serve in the finance department. In 1979 he moved to Inland’s sales department where he progressed through increasingly responsible management positions in sales and customer service. Mr. Alvarado was named manager-strategic planning in 1985 was promoted to manager-plate production one year later and named manager-automotive marketing and international development in 1987. In 1988 he was appointed vice president and general manager-sales and marketing for Inland Bar Company and was promoted to president in 1995.
Mr. Alvarado assumed the role of executive vice president-commercial at Birmingham Steel Company in Birmingham Ala. in 1997 and joined Ispat North America Inc. in 1998 as vice president-long products sales and marketing. In 2004 Mr. Alvarado accepted the positions of president and chief operating officer at Dallas Texas-based Lone Star Technologies Inc. and held them until U. S. Steel named him vice president-tubular in June 2007 after completing its acquisition of Lone Star Technologies Inc. and its related companies.
Mr. Alvarado is a member of the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the Metal Service Center Institute. | 