Cindy received a B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1994 at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. She taught high school physics and math before returning to the university to conduct research in the field of Medical Physics for which she received a Masters of Philosophy degree in Physics in 2000. She then worked in QC/QA at the local steel plant before joining a marine oil and gas company Trinmar Ltd. which was later fully nationalized under the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago. She did seismic interpretation, well site sitting and pore pressure detection from seismic data, and was involved in the first multilateral well drilled offshore Trinidad.

Cindy entered CSM in 2004 to pursue an M.S. degree in Geophysics with the Center for Petrophysics. Since then she has had internships with Apache in 2005 investigating the AVO response of deep GOM sediments, and Anadarko's Denver office working on pore pressure modeling using sonic logs. Her research focuses on modeling the effects of fractures on the sonic tool response and her main career interest is in "seismic petrophysics". Cindy served as the executive treasurer for the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago from 2001-2004, and more recently as the treasurer of the SGGS at CSM.