Mr. Flum 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.  Prior to coming to the University of Alabama he was at Athens High School and Athens Middle School in Athens, Alabama, where he served as percussion instructor from 1984-2000. During that time he was also an instructor at Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama.

Neal is a past secretary for the Alabama Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society and served as its President from 1994 until 1996. He is also a member of the staff of Thom Hannum's Mobile Percussion Seminar. Mr. Flum 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. He is currently the Chapter President for the Alabama Chapter of The Percussive Arts Society (2004 – 2007), and is currently on the ballot for the 2006 slate of the PAS Board of Directors.

Mr. Flum has adjudicated and consulted widely throughout the Southeast and has been published by Warner Brothers’ marching band division, Percussive Notes, and the Pearl Corporation Percussion Resource Library.   He is an adjudicator for the Northwest Marching Band Circuit and is currently a member of the Music Educators National Conference and the Percussive Arts Society.

In 1992, Neal was on the percussion staff of the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps. He played snare drum in the Long Island Kingsmen Drum and Bugle Corps in 1981 and 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.

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