Chase is often regarded as the "wild card" in the series, due to his often changing role in the group, from being the getaway guy and technical guru to the "loose cannon" after he departed the group for a short while.

Released in February 2009, the Stairway to Nowhere album featured James on vocals and various instruments, Vuk Pavlovic of Nature's Pocket providing drums for three tracks, and Balcony as the mastering and technical guru.

Although Deek's precise role within the extremist community is unknown, his name appears variously as a staff member, instructor, and technical guru for the Khaldan and Derunta terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.

After struggling to install the latest version of OS/2 Warp on my new Pentium-based computer for several days, I called in I.B.M.'s chief OS/2 evangelist and technical guru, David L. Barnes.

The statement that companies rely so heavily on a few technical gurus is as true as it is (or should be) disturbing.

This is unlikely, so, if Fabre wins, Villepreux will act as technical guru for Skrela and his friend Aguirre while still coaching Treviso.

Those details were handled by Jim Doyle, Wet's technical guru, who tested a series of mock-ups at a proving ground in the San Fernando Valley in California.

A variant of this method is employed by Delos, a California company whose technical guru is John Eargle, a part-time pianist and author of several authoritative texts on sound engineering.

Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems founder and technical guru, has called it "the first yuppie work station."

"We all want to be involved in this business because it's something important, not just to make money or put up cool graphics," said David Goodman, a technical guru at N2K Entertainment, another Internet music company.