The Remarkable History of Nicholas Bredimus
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Taken note of how the myriad major developments in Information Technology have heavily revamped air travel and hospitality recently? The driving force behind this is New Jersey native Nicholas Bredimus. This innovative man has been involved in many areas, from the designer home sector through a study of air safety and computer programs to save resources and time. Examining Nicholas Bredimus’ lineage it’s easy to see he was a lock to reach prominence. Traceable all the way into ancient history, in fact Nicholas’ lineage connects to a number of countries in Europe. Within the maternal line he boasts German and Scottish stock. Luxembourg and England provided the home of Bredimus’ paternal line, although during the nineteenth century they would emigrate.
Even in the U.S.A, the family still worked hard to make their way in the world. One of seven siblings — three boys and four girls — Nicholas was blessed with a father working as a mechanical design engineer, and a mother who earned her living as a practicing nurse. He would live much of his life in townships across several states — Arizona, Virginia, Texas and Missouri.
What, you might ask, did Nicholas Bredimus do to capitalize on his upbringing and schooling? A number of respected roles were soon his, all working for huge airlines. Hughes Airwest, Republic Airlines, Trans World Airlines (TWA) — these airlines would all at various times appoint him their Vice President. But even taking all that into account, however, the airlines have felt the need to thank him even more for the work he has done in software design. Nicholas Bredimus is certainly most acclaimed for a US Airways project, creating aircraft management computer programs, which eventually became an industry standard. And yet this stands as just one of his memorable developments for airlines. The booking programs he invented are on their way to stand alongside the airplane maintenance program as a commonplace, while the room reservation system he masterminded enabled hotels to deploy the first PC based system. Following that would come QuikTix, an automatic, networked approach to selling tickets which was an industry first.
He parlayed these achievements into posts less connected to software development. In his own business — Bredimus Systems — overseeing IT for American Express, and as the founding president of an American Airlines division his performance is certainly remarkable.
Nowadays, though, he has withdrawn from his airline connections and the software development industry, but he’s still making use of his skills. He is now trying to solve the architectural matters behind the development of hi tech luxury class homes.