Professional Biography
Vladimir Shkolkin is a Senior Accident Reconstructionist for YA Group. He began his career as a vehicle damage appraiser and has inspected, evaluated, and photographed over 10,000 crashed vehicles to determine the extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, and interior damage. Additionally, he trained staff in vehicle damage appraisal and estimating software.
Vladimir earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Northridge in 2019. During his senior design project, he participated in the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge, where he designed the vehicle frame, developed and performed the rollover threshold test for a tadpole recumbent vehicle.
He is trained in various skills necessary for conducting scientific investigations of accidents and analyzing their causes.
Credentials & Certifications
- CDR – Certified Advance EDR data Interpretation (Rick Ruth Consultancy), 2020 (SAE)
- LEVA - Certified Forensic Video Technician (LEVA)
- Automotive Vehicle Appraisal (ASE)
- Drone Pilot (FAACDP)
- California Motorcycle Endorsement (M1)
Professional Experience
- Senior Accident Reconstructionist | YA Engineering Services | 2024 - Current
- Staff Engineer | Collision and Injury Dynamics, Inc. | 2022 - 2024
- Forensic Engineer | Momentum Engineering Corp. | 2019 - 2021
Publications and Presentations
- Simacek, D., Tovar, J., Famiglietti, N., Shkolkin, V. et al., "Stationary and Moving Camera Video Analysis Compared to Known Reference System," SAE Technical Paper 2021-01-0879, 2021. (April 2021)
Education
- Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Northridge, California
Training Courses
- Calculating Speed from Audio, SATAI (February 2026)
- Human Factor for Accident Reconstruction, Driver Research Institute (October 2025)
- PhotoModeler for Collision Investigation, PhotoModeler Technologies (June 2025)
- Digital Multimedia Evidence Processing, LEVA (April 2025)
- Video Analysis using PC-Crash, PC-Crash (September 2024)
- Forensic Video Analysis and the Law, LEVA (May 2024)
- Investigation of Motorcycle Crashes Level II, IPTM (January 2024)
- Accessing and Interpreting Heavy Vehicle Event Data Recorders, SAE (October 2023)
- Vehicle Crash Reconstruction Methods, R. Mattthew Brach, PHD PE, Instructor (February 2023)
- Conference, Southwestern Association of Technical Accident Investigators (February 2023)
- Investigation of Motorcycle Crashes Level I, IPTM (January 2023)
- Fundamentals of Automotive All-Wheel Drive Systems, SAE (January 2022)
- Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics, SAE (December 2021)
- Driver Distraction from Electronic Devices, SAE (December 2021)
- Applying Automotive EDR Data to Traffic Crash Reconstruction, SAE (December 2019)
- Photogrammetry and Analysis of Digital Media, SAE (September 2019)
- PC-Crash – Training Course, PC-Crash (August 2019)
- Conference, Southwestern Association of Technical Accident Investigators (July 2019)
- Photoshop, Creative Photo Academy (February 2019)
- Automotive Photography, Creative Photo Academy (February 2019)
- Vehicle Crash Reconstruction Principles and Technology, SAE (December 2017)
- CDR – Technician, Crash Data Group (2017)
- Photography, Moorpark College (2015)
- Motorcycle Safety Course (2004)
Affiliations
- Society of Automotive Engineering
- Southwestern Association of Technical Accident Investigators
- Law Enforcement & Emergency Services Video Association International, Inc.