Neal is currently the Associate Director of Athletic Bands at The University of Alabama. He is Director of Athletic Pep Bands and is also the percussion instructor and arranger for the marching band. He is a past secretary for the Alabama Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society and served as its President from 1994 until 1996. He is currently in his second term as Chapter President. Neal is a clinician/endorser for Pearl Drums and Adams Musical Instruments, Innovative Percussion, Evans Drumheads, The Avedis Zildjian Co., and Grover Pro Percussion. He is also a member of the staff of Thom Hannum's Mobile Percussion Seminar. Neal is the creator and director of the Athens Percussion Festival (1989-2000) and is the co-founder of the Alabama Chapter of PAS Day of Percussion. In 2005, Neal began the Million Dollar Band High School Percussion Clinic which takes place on the campus of The University of Alabama. He is also a consultant for the Brookwood High School indoor percussion program (Brookwood, Alabama) and the Blackstone-Millville indoor percussion program (Blackstone-Millville, Massachusetts) Neal has adjudicated, consulted, and taught in the southeast and has been published by Warner Brothers’ marching band division, Percussive Notes, and the Pearl Corporation Percussion Resource Library. He also adjudicates for the Northwest Marching Band Circuit. He is a member of the Music Educators National Conference and the Percussive Arts Society. In 1992 he was on the percussion staff of the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps. He played snare in the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps in 1982. In 1983 he played multi-tenors with the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps and earned, along with the rest of the section, the "High Drums" trophy. Mr. Flum is a graduate of the University of Alabama (BA 1985 and MA 1988), was a member of the Million Dollar Band from 1980 until 1984, and served as percussion co-instructor his final year. Prior to coming to the University of Alabama, Neal taught for 13 years at Calhoun Community College and with the Athens, Alabama high school and middle school band programs.