Joe’s experience in both the steelmaking and tubular products industries has been a great benefit to us since he joined U.S. Steel in 2007 to lead the integration of the operations of Lone Star with U. S. Steel’s Tubular Division, said Goodish. We thank Joe for his contributions to our company during the critical integration period and extend our best wishes to him.
In 1979, he shifted to Inland’s sales department, where he advanced through increasingly responsible management positions in sales and customer service. Alvarado was appointed manager-strategic planning in 1985, advanced to manager-plate production one year later, and was named manager-automotive marketing and international development in 1987. In 1988, he was named vice president and general manager-sales and marketing for Inland Bar Company and was named president in 1995.
Alvarado joined the role of executive vice president-commercial at Birmingham Steel Company in Birmingham, Alabama in 1997 and joined Ispat North America Inc. in 1998 as vice president-long products sales and marketing. In 2004, 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 appointed him vice president-tubular operations and president-U.S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. in June 2007 after acquiring Lone Star Technologies, Inc. and its related companies.
Currently Alvarado serves on the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute and the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association, and he is a former board member of the Metals Service Center Institute. In addition he is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
Alvarado has done his graduation from the University of Notre Dame (Indiana) in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and holds a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University in Ithaca, NewYork, in 1976.
