Past 25 Years 

In 2023 to 2024, Michael Holloway acted as the Global Technical Manager for SGS of Geneva Switzerland with technical leadership overview of 36 Oil Condition Monitoring laboratories.

From 2013 to 2019, Holloway worked with ALS Tribology lubrication condition monitoring in global strategy providing strategic account leadership for top accounts (branded and direct).

From 1999 to 2013 served as Director of Technical Development and Reliability, for NCH Corporation – Lubricants used in Heavy Industrial Equipment, Government GSA, Mining and Construction applications, trained and conducted Plant Surveys, Reliability Proposals, On-site Seminars, Case Studies and Cost Savings Studies, Spend Analysis and Value Recognition Reports, Reliability Audits.  

Prior to 1999

Holloway worked as an Applications Engineer OEM specialist for General Electric Plastics – Silicone, as a Product Engineer specializing silicone materials for electronic and aerospace applications, for Rohm & Haas Electronic Chemicals as a Product Engineer for I-line and X-ray lithographic photoresists for microelectronic fabrication, as an Aerospace Materials Product Development Engineering Chemist for low observable and EMI/RFI shielding materials for WR Grace Chomerics, and as a Polymer Research Chemist for Olin Chemical.

Professional Society Positions and Academic Work

Engineering Master’s Thesis ‘A Study of the Design, Process, and Application of Single and Twin Screw Extruders for the Reactive Extrusion of Polymeric Materials’ under the advisement of Dr. Rudy Deanin, department Chair.

Undergraduate Chemistry Senior Study: ‘The Analysis and Characterization to Establish the Glass Transition Drift of Polysulfide Seal Material from the Space Shuttle Challenger’ under advisement of Dr. George Morris, Professor and Consulting Scientist for Raytheon Corp.

Undergraduate Philosophy Senior Study: ‘The Influence of British Empiricism on the Development of Twentieth Century Atomic Theories’, under the advisement of Dr. Lubomire Glieman, department Chair.

Over the past 30 years, Holloway has published hundreds of papers as well as presented and provided training annually at STLE, Noria, TAPPI, ANTEC, SPE, ASTM, SMRP, ConExpo, MineExpo, World of Concrete, AARS, AIMs, PackExpo, FoodExpo, AESP, ILMA, FluidPower, AGMA, ABMA, IEEE, SAE, OilDoc, LubeMat, IMC, and NLGI.

Holloway served as the North Texas Section Chair for Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers as well as certification examiner for the International Council for Machinery Lubrication and an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas.  He was managing editor for 3 years for Porsche Club of America magazine SLIPSTREAM and holds a US patent for bearing cleaning composition and method of use.