ATILUS - Web Design | Internet Marketing

Shooting For The Cyber Stars

Alumni’s Web design company on rapid upward trajectory
BY JAY MACDONALD

Many a successful Internet business took off in some- one’s garage. But Atilus, a young Estero-based Web design and development enterprise, found a better, if unlikely, launch pad: the FGCU Library.

Atilus, which began officially in late 2005 as Unique ID Web Design, is the brainchild of FGCU alumni Zach Katkin, ’07, Harry Casimir, ’05, and Jermaine Primus, ’05, who met as FGCU undergraduates in 2003. Katkin, then a sophomore, recalls their historic first meeting at which Casimir, an upperclassman, brought him to meet fellow upperclassman Primus.

“We were in the old Library building. It’s all different now (since the expansion), but we remember exactly where it was,” he says. “I remember throughout my career as a student that I would just dual-role, studying in the mornings and then finish up some work in the afternoons and evenings there. #at literally was our first office. Our first office phone was a cell phone.”

Casimir spotted Katkin’s design skills while watching him doodle in a technology class.

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