My name is Eric Bowen, and I'm an Architect Evangelist working for Microsoft on the Developer & Platform Evangelism team. I'm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and cover Minnesota, Iowa, North & South Dakota, and Nebraska.
Scrappydog is the the domain name I use for all of my personal websites, and it is where my original Microsoft technology blog was hosted for 4 years until I joined Microsoft, and moved this blog to blogs.msdn.com.