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The Life Story of a Clever Inventor
Have you realized the extent to which the many advances in Information Technology have utterly revamped hospitality and air travel as you knew them in the past decades? The driving force behind this is New Jersey native Nicholas Bredimus. His CV covers time-saving computer software, airplane safety developments, and he's even involved in designing upmarket homes.
Raised in New Jersey, Nicholas Bredimus combined the spheres of software, hospitality, and airlines and forever changed all three industries. His CV covers effort-saving computer software, airplane safety advancements, and he's even involved in designing upmarket houses. And, in all cases, his passion shines through.
Anyone could have anticipated, of course, that given his heritage he was always likely to rise to distinction. Coming together from many nationalities, his line traces to Antiquity, with his mother's side predominantly Scottish and German. An equally unusual blend stands out in the paternal line - before their emigration in the late 1800s, the family lived in Luxembourg and England. Even following their arrival in the US, they upheld their drive and zeal to reach the top. Part of a family of seven children, Nicholas would be born to a father employed as a design engineer, and a mother who worked as a practicing nurse. He would come to live in Kansas City, Texas, Arizona and a city named Reston in Virginia. Nicholas has taken on prestigious jobs for firms across the air travel industry - many of them huge names. These included the VP role for Republic Airlines, Trans World Airlines (TWA), and Hughes Airwest. Most important, however, is his prowess as a gifted software architect working with the airline industry.
His innovations in the field of aircraft maintenance software, now employed throughout the airline sector though originally coded for one specific business, resulted in what is surely his most popular achievement. And yet this stands as only one of his significant creations for the hotel business. The booking programs he designed are on their way to joining the airplane maintenance program as a commonplace, and his hotel reservation program empowered many major businesses in the hotel industry to shift to a PC based infrastructure. Still innovating, he produced a networking program to help with selling tickets - once again developing an application no one else had thought of.
He has taken on a number of posts entirely outside of software design as well. Nicholas Bredimus managed American Express' IT wing, launched Bredimus Systems in 1993, and became the inaugural president of a major American Airlines division.
Though he has stepped back from the posts in which he first tasted fortune, his skills are, regardless, still exercised constantly. He is now trying to solve the architectural concerns behind the development of hitech luxurious homes.