About Us

Colin Mason
President/CEO/Founder

Colin is President/CEO of Circle 7 Software, Inc. In 2001, he founded a web application development company called Level 7 Solutions, LLC, that catered to small businesses. There, he honed his skills at building relationships, networking and community involvement and built Level 7 into a successful small business.

In 2006, together with LJ Skibbe, he founded Circle 7 Software, after learning about the problems in Adult Probation from Steve Swan, Director of Liberty County (TX) Adult Supervision. ProbationComm was developed as Circle 7's first product to market and addressed some of the problems of today's probation management.

Most days he finds himself hunkered down behind his desktop, laptop, or some other electronic medium, creating and fine-tuning software and brainstorming the next great product from Circle 7. Colin is well versed in C#, Visual Basic.NET, SQL Databases, HTML coding and other web technologies and is an early adopter of Microsoft's .NET Framework and surrounding technologies.

Jill Black
Marketing Director

Jill has been in marketing and account management for 12 years and most recently was Director of Marketing for DataCert, Inc., Houston and Senior Marketing Manager for Vignette Corp., Austin.  She brings a world of marketing experience to the team.

LJ Skibbe
Public Relations and Communications

L.J. Skibbe joined the firm after 18 years of high tech experience as a public relations manager for HP's Consumer Digital Entertainment Products, and then as a Senior Systems Engineer for Compaq's Multimedia Lab.

L.J. has published many white papers in the area of multimedia and multimedia development. She is a published author of the book entitled "Optimizing Your Multimedia PC," and has been a speaker at conferences including Comdex, NAB, Compaq Systems Engineering Conference, and Society for Technical Communicators.

L.J. will be responsible for all Product Marketing, Communications, Media Relations and Sales.