Universal Lighting Technologies, a provider of commercial lighting and a member of the Panasonic Group, recently announced the appointment of David Skinner as director of field applications engineering for North America.

Skinner possesses more than two decades of electrical engineering and management experience. His 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 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,” said Joe Damiani, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Universal Lighting Technologies. “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.”

For more information about Universal Lighting Technologies and its comprehensive lighting products, call 1-800-225-5278 or visit www.unvlt.com.