April 8, 2010

A Life of Creation — Nicholas Bredimus

Filed under: House Of The Social Web — admin @ 5:17 pm

Hailing from New Jersey, Nicholas Bredimus studied the spheres of hospitality, software, and airlines and revitalized all three areas of business. His career highlights include time-saving computer software, aircraft safety improvements, and even the design of high-value homes.

His family tree tells you everything you might want to know concerning the source of his talents and how much he has done. Drawing elements together from a true melting pot, his kindred traces to Antiquity, with the maternal branch rooted in Germany and Scotland. A similarly unusual blend dominates the paternal line — ahead of coming to America in the late nineteenth century, Bredimus’ antecedents made their homes in England and Luxembourg.

Having arrived in America, they still strove to climb in the world. Nicholas, along with his two brothers and four sisters, was a child of a father employed as a mechanical design engineer and a mother who was a practicing nurse. He settled for a time in Texas, Kansas City, Arizona and a place by the name of Reston in Virginia. And what, you may ask, did Bredimus do with his upbringing and schooling? A number of prominent jobs were soon his, all working with huge airlines. Mr Nicholas Bredimus ascended to the position of vp with businesses like Trans World Airlines (TWA), Republic Airlines, and Hughes Airwest respectively. Nevertheless, the airline industry has had reason to be grateful, above all, for his work in software architecture.

Nicholas is probably most acclaimed for the airplane maintenance system he designed on behalf of US Airways, which would rapidly become the “old reliable” for much of the industry. He would go on to examine recording and taking bookings. For both air travel and hotels he designed programs to handle the bulk of the work that had been involved prior to this approach. And next he published QuikTix, an automatic, networked system for selling tickets that was an industry first. Nicholas has even served in several positions unconnected to software development, let’s not forget. Major jobs with American Airlines and American Express followed, and as you may know he started up a firm of his own seventeen years ago.

Having stepped back from the fields which first gave him fame, his capabilities are, regardless, still exercised daily. Look for his work now at the forefront of building design — mixing the needs of quality with up to date technology and true concern for the environment. That energy we’ve mentioned just does not stop anytime soon!