I was working on a profile where I have a credit for a crewmember in the opening credits. Later on in the end credits the same person is credited again with the same role, but with a different credited as name.

For cast the rules are clear that the end credits are leading when an actor is listed in both opening- and end credits. Does that apply for the crew as well? So what is leading for a crewmember the opening- or the end credits?

Interestingly, I could not find anything conclusive in the Credits rules section.
Edit: Thanks Gamemaster, completely overlooked that end-credits part.
But I would favor the end credits since most of the time this gives more detailed info.

However, it also depends on the movie and particularly the older ones, since those movies most of the time have more credits at the beginning and in the end credits only a handful or nothing at all.

Sometimes it is even getting weirder, like the Christopher/Chris Place example I stumbled upon a couple of weeks ago.
But in that case, the same person has two different roles (actor and Stunt Coordinator) on which the latter is not to be submitted to the Profiler DB.

Like I said, I favor the end credits, but I won't rule out any exceptions as well.

Since the rules don't say anything about a preference for opening or closing credits for crew, I use the first appearance of each crew credit and ignore any duplicate credit.  Thus if a crew member is listed in both the opening and closing credits I take the name and role from the opening.

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Quoting scotthm:

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I use the first appearance of each crew credit and ignore any duplicate credit. 

That's how I do it, too.