Discovering what’s forgotten

Nice to meet you, I’m Allie. I am a UX Researcher living in Austin, Texas. I’m currently a Senior UXR at epocrates (an AthenaHealth Company).  

Beyond my professional pursuits, I'm a self-professed fossil enthusiast, archaeology lover and collector of antique treasures. If it's something that might pique the interest of Indiana Jones or Captain Jack Sparrow, you can bet I'm all over it. My academic career in ancient studies, architecture and ethnography was a very official (and expensive) way of proclaiming my love for all things intricate, aged and/or shiny. Whether it's decoding human behavior, diving into attitudinal data, hunting for fossils, scouring for beach glass, or snooping for estate jewelry treasures, I'm all about life's forgotten details.

If you’re looking for me, you may find me in a local Texas creek looking for fossilized marine invertebrates, the streets of ATX admiring traditional hand lettering and ghost signs with my partner in crime Pippin the Mini Poodle or creeping around Austin pawn shops. If you have no luck finding me there, you can catch me at allieshenner@gmail.com.

Education

Washington University in St Louis
BA Architecture
2016–2020

Experience

Senior UX Researcher, epocrates at AthenaHealth
May 2022 – Present
Conducting user research in generative and evaluative settings to inform recommendations that improve the user experience of the native and web platforms of epocrates. Actively planning, executing and synthesizing research plans at various stages of a product's lifecycle in support of a larger product team. Highly focused on how the epocrates experience can be the most valuable and accessible for our users.
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Associate UX Researcher, epocrates at AthenaHealth
December 2020 – May 2022

Assistant Researcher at Washington University in St Louis
July 2019 - September 2019
Undergraduate researcher for Salvaging Crete: Late Byzantine Churches and the Legacy of the Artist Ioannis Pagomenos tasked with assisting in ethnographic research, site documentation and map creation.The scholarship funded project took place in Crete accompanied by professionals in fields including architecture, anthropology, art history and conservation.

The research project, “Preserving the Legacy of the Artist Ioannis Pagomenos” combined fieldwork and post processing research to create a digital archive of 14th century frescoes by Ioannis Pagomenos. Skills utilized in the field including documentary photography and conservation analysis informed the later documentation created with Adobe Suite, Rhinoceros 5 and AutoCad. (https://sites.wustl.edu/
salvagingcrete/)