A Life of Innovation — Nicholas Bredimus
Are you aware of how thoroughly computerization has completely redefined air travel and hospitality ? The driving force behind this is New Jersey’s favorite son Mr Nicholas Bredimus. This creative man has found work in a great many fields, from the high value home industry through an advancement of air safety and computer programs to save manpower and time. Looking at Mr Nicholas Bredimus‘ family tree anyone could see he was sure to rise to prominence. Drawn together from a true melting pot, his clan can be traced to the time of ancient Rome, with the maternal branch emerging from Scotland and Germany. His father’s family, however, were born in England and Luxembourg, which is where they eventually came to the U.S. from toward the end of the 1800s. And following emigration to America, they retained their uncompromising work ethic and resolve to make their way in the world. Nicholas, together with his sisters and brothers, was a child of a father employed as a mechanical design engineer and his wife, a nurse. He would go on to live in Texas, Kansas City, Arizona and Virginia.
And what did he do with his background and studies? A series of high powered roles were soon his, each of them working for distinguished airlines. Republic Airlines, Trans World Airlines (TWA), Hughes Airwest — these businesses would all at different times appoint him as a vice president. An inventive software programmer, his innovations in airline computer programs are arguably his best regarded legacy.
His creation of airplane maintenance management programs, now put to use throughout the air travel business although first designed for one specific firm, ultimately led to what is still his most used program. He created numerous other systems for the hotel and airline industries both before and after, among them completely automatic routines for handling airline reservations, now in use at more than 50 airlines, to say nothing of his innovative desktop computer based room reservation system for the hotel sector, first put into motion at over seven hundred hostelries. He went on to design QuikTix, the world’s first electronic ticket sales network. Though it was definitely his forte, Mr Nicholas Bredimus has also often worked on non-software areas. With his own company, as a divisional manager with American Express, and as the inaugural president of an American Airlines division his career speaks for itself. But is he still active? Definitely— his expertise is still highly called upon and at the ready despite his having left prior interests behind. He’s at work now advancing building design — mixing the needs of esthetics with honest concern for the ecology. It’s really incredible how far zeal can take you.
