* Cherokee Shoe in Thousand Oaks said...

* Cherokee Shoe in Thousand Oaks said an internal reorganization has resulted in some executive appointments. The shoe unit of Sunland-based Cherokee Inc. also has moved to bigger offices in Thousand Oaks and expanded its private label division.

Scott Crespi will be Cherokee Shoe’s new account executive/product manager. Crespi was the general manager of the shoe division of APEX, an apparel maker. Staci Levine was named marketing coordinator. She has been with Cherokee Shoe for seven years in various merchandising and marketing positions. Alvin Fels was appointed head designer. Fels, formerly a free-lance designer and consultant, had been a designer at Cherokee Shoe.

At Cherokee Shoe’s private label division, Shengyen Lin, an employee since 1974, was named as the division’s president and Alan Beatty was named executive vice president.

* Hugh D. MacGillivray and Robert H. Koch have been named systems managers for the Metro Green Line project at O’Brien-Kreitzberg & Associates Inc.

MacGillivray will serve as start-up manager. He was chief officer of line maintenance for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

Koch will serve as automatic train control manager. He was director of special projects at Deco Industries Inc.

Encino-based O’Brien-Kreitzberg is construction manager on the $722-million Metro Green Line light-rail project.

* Marvin Snyder was named president of Rico International. Previously, he was the company’s vice president and has also been an elementary school principal.

Snyder replaces Richard A. Knaub, who retired.

Sun Valley-based Rico International manufacturers reeds for woodwind instruments such as saxophones and clarinets.

* Joel A. Appelbaum has been named executive vice president and general manager of the storage systems division at Micropolis Corp., a Chatsworth computer disk drive maker.

Previously, he was president and chief executive at Univel, a joint venture formed by computer software supplier Novell Inc. and Unix Systems Laboratories.

* David R. Carpenter, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co., has been elected chairman of the board at UniHealth America, a nonprofit health care organization based in Burbank.

Carpenter succeeds UniHealth’s founding chairman, Samuel J. Tibbitts, who died March 21. Carpenter has been a member of UniHealth’s board since its inception in 1988. He is also director of UniHealth’s California Medical Center Foundation and a board member of PacifiCare Health Systems, a health maintenance organization in which UniHealth holds significant interest.

* Dakin Inc., a Woodland Hills marketer of plush toys and gift products, has appointed Jennifer Monson to the newly created position of vice president of product development. Monson was previously vice president of product development at Russ Berrie Co. in Oakland, N. J.

* Darwin D. Beckel has been named president of the Woodland Hills-based Guidance and Control Systems division of Litton Industries. Beckel replaces Larry A. Frame, who has been named a corporate senior vice president and executive in charge of Litton’s Navigation, Guidance & Control Systems group.

Beverly Hills-based Litton builds combat ships for the U.S. Navy.