Hello Scott, welcome to Steem! :-)
@cheetah warned us, but there's a point, you link from here to your website and social media profiles, thing is, that anyone can do that pretending to be you, so to make a proof you would have to link the other way around (put info on your official page or twitter, that your Steem handle is zimernyc)
If unsure, people will hesitate as we had many cases with impostors.