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U.S. Steel announces executive appointments

United States Steel Corp. today announced that it has appointed Michael A. Fedorenko as general manager-Granite City Works and Douglas R. Matthews as vice president and general director of U.S. Steel Serbia. Both appointments are effective May 1.

Fedorenko, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and began his career with U. S. Steel that same year. He advanced through a series of engineering positions at operations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in 1986 he moved into the purchasing department at the company's headquarters in Pittsburgh. In 1988 he was promoted to manager-purchasing at Fairless Works near Philadelphia.

Fedorenko was transferred to Fairfield Works in Alabama in 1990, where he was named manager of engineering. In 1996, he was named senior area manager of sheet products, and in 1998 he was named division manager of utilities, shops and services. He returned to Pittsburgh in 2000, when he was named plant manager of the Irvin Plant of Mon Valley Works.

In September 2003, Fedorenko was named, vice president-technology at U. S. Steel Kosice (USSK), U. S. Steel's steelmaking operation in the Slovak Republic, and in March 2005 was appointed to his most recent position as vice president and general director-U. S. Steel Serbia, d.o.o and affiliated companies.

Matthews joined U. S. Steel in 1988 as a management associate at the Edgar Thomson Plant, Mon Valley Works' steelmaking facility. He progressed through several supervisory positions in the Electrical and Caster Maintenance departments at Edgar Thomson before he was named senior process leader of coating operations at the Irvin Plant, where steel slabs from Edgar Thomson are rolled into sheet products.

In 1997 he was transferred to Pro-Tec Coating Company in Leipsic, Ohio, U. S. Steel's joint venture with Kobe Steel of Japan, where he managed the installation and commissioning of the facility's second continuous galvanizing line. From 1998 to 2003, he oversaw iron producing at the former USS/KOBE steelmaking venture in Lorain, Ohio, and at Gary Works, respectively. He was named division manager of steelmaking and casting at Gary Works in 2003, and was promoted to his most recent position, general manager of blast furnace engineering and technology, at Pittsburgh headquarters in 2005.

Matthews graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and received a master's degree in business administration from Duquesne University in 1993.