Universal Hires David Skinner as North American Director of Field Applications Engineering Team

Universal Lighting Technologies’s new North American Director of Field Applications Engineering Team possesses more than two decades of electrical engineering and management experience.

David Skinner’s background includes creating LED module, driver and control solutions to meet performance, cost and efficiency targets. In previous roles he has led high- performance field engineering teams, defined innovative products, and implemented system-level solutions with customers.

Skinner will oversee Universal’s Field Application Engineer (FAE) team, a technical resource team supporting solid state lighting (LED) system optimization for projects across the country. Skinner will work with lighting designers and customers to demonstrate the flexibility of Universal’s lighting components in a wide range of applications.

“David has extensive expertise with today’s lighting technologies,” says Joe Damiani, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “His knowledge and diverse background in power, lighting, systems engineering and design will support the application of Universal’s entire product line, particularly the Everline LED family.”