Here is the Story of an Innovator: Nicholas Bredimus

Hailing from New Jersey, Nicholas Bredimus united the spheres of airlines, software, and hospitality and forever changed all three industries. His career highlights include time-saving computer programs, airplane safety advancements, and even the design of high-value homes. And, through it all, his drive is evident.

His pedigree tells you everything you might want to know regarding his talents and the amount he has accomplished. Drawn together from many nationalities, his clan traces to the time of ancient Rome, with the maternal line predominantly Scottish and German. His father's family, however, has its roots in England and Luxembourg, which is where they subsequently migrated from in the late 1800s.


This passionate zeal prevailed on arrival in America. Nicholas, who would grow up with his sisters and brothers, was a child of a father who worked as a software design engineer and a mother who worked as a practicing nurse. He would spend much of his life in homes across several states -- Virginia, Arizona, Texas and Missouri.

And what, you may ask, did he do with his pedigree and education? A number of high-powered posts were soon his, all as part of popular airlines. Hughes Airwest, Republic Airlines, Trans World Airlines (TWA) -- these businesses would all at different times respectively appoint him as a vice president. Most celebrated, though, was his prowess as an inventive software designer working with the airlines.

He is probably most renowned for the aircraft maintenance management system he crafted for US Airways, which would soon become an industry standard. And yet this stands as only one of his standout creations for airlines. The booking programs he developed are on their way to joining the aforementioned program as a standard, and the room reservation routine he masterminded empowered several major parts of the hotel industry to switch over to a client based technology. He went on to design QuikTix, the world's first automatic ticket ordering network.

Mr Bredimus parlayed these successes into positions unconnected to software development. He worked as manager for American Express' important IT department, started up Bredimus Systems in 1993, and had the honor of becoming the founding president of American Airlines' AMR Travel Services. Though he has departed from the positions in which he first knew success, his abilities are, nevertheless, still very much in use. His focus has shifted to the architectural problems bound up in the design of environmentally neutral, technologically advanced superior houses. That desire we have noted here just cannot be exhausted anytime soon!