 Daly served as the Head of Design of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States, from 1979 to 2006.From 2006 to 2009, Daly worked as the Senior Design Advisor to the Director for capital and special projects.He started his own consulting firm after leaving the Metropolitan and worked on new galleries, exhibitions and renovations at the Gibbes Museum, Morgan Library, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Driehaus Museum, Ringling Museum and several exhibits for The Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory.