After his professional playing career, he returned to Law School where he clerked his first year at Jeffer, Mangles, Butler and Marmaro.
He continued his education at Liberty University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 2010, and decided that he would enter the coaching profession.
In 2002 he left to become the head coach with Canyon del Oro High School, getting to the state playoffs in three consecutive seasons.
He remained in Culiacan, Sinaloa Mexico for one season, helping that first-year franchise play in the 24-team LNBP, qualify for the playoffs, and finish in position 6 overall.
Saintignon returned to NCAA Division II to become lead assistant at Cal State Stanislaus University.
The same season, Saintignon was hired as the head coach of an overseas professional organization at Sitra Club, in the Kingdom of Bahrain in the Middle East.
In 2021-2022 Saintignon has been asked to build a new franchise in the prefecture, Yamaguchi in Japan, the first time ever that Professional Basketball will be played.